**Describe the situation**

Currently it does not:

```
milovidov-desktop :) EXPLAIN SYNTAX SELECT sum(cityHash64(*)) AS x FROM test.hits WHERE URLDomain LIKE '%metrika%'

EXPLAIN SYNTAX
SELECT sum(cityHash64(*)) AS x
FROM test.hits
WHERE URLDomain LIKE '%metrika%'

Query id: a752ed76-a71c-4e26-96c1-1b081abfc539

┌─explain────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ SELECT sum(cityHash64(WatchID, JavaEnable, Title, GoodEvent, EventTime, EventDate, CounterID, ClientIP, ClientIP6, RegionID, UserID, CounterClass, OS, UserAgent, URL, Referer, URLDomain, RefererDomain, Refresh, IsRobot, RefererCategories, URLCategories, URLRegions, RefererRegions, ResolutionWidth, ResolutionHeight, ResolutionDepth, FlashMajor, FlashMinor, FlashMinor2, NetMajor, NetMinor, UserAgentMajor, UserAgentMinor, CookieEnable, JavascriptEnable, IsMobile, MobilePhone, MobilePhoneModel, Params, IPNetworkID, TraficSourceID, SearchEngineID, SearchPhrase, AdvEngineID, IsArtifical, WindowClientWidth, WindowClientHeight, ClientTimeZone, ClientEventTime, SilverlightVersion1, SilverlightVersion2, SilverlightVersion3, SilverlightVersion4, PageCharset, CodeVersion, IsLink, IsDownload, IsNotBounce, FUniqID, HID, IsOldCounter, IsEvent, IsParameter, DontCountHits, WithHash, HitColor, UTCEventTime, Age, Sex, Income, Interests, Robotness, GeneralInterests, RemoteIP, RemoteIP6, WindowName, OpenerName, HistoryLength, BrowserLanguage, BrowserCountry, SocialNetwork, SocialAction, HTTPError, SendTiming, DNSTiming, ConnectTiming, ResponseStartTiming, ResponseEndTiming, FetchTiming, RedirectTiming, DOMInteractiveTiming, DOMContentLoadedTiming, DOMCompleteTiming, LoadEventStartTiming, LoadEventEndTiming, NSToDOMContentLoadedTiming, FirstPaintTiming, RedirectCount, SocialSourceNetworkID, SocialSourcePage, ParamPrice, ParamOrderID, ParamCurrency, ParamCurrencyID, GoalsReached, OpenstatServiceName, OpenstatCampaignID, OpenstatAdID, OpenstatSourceID, UTMSource, UTMMedium, UTMCampaign, UTMContent, UTMTerm, FromTag, HasGCLID, RefererHash, URLHash, CLID, YCLID, ShareService, ShareURL, ShareTitle, `ParsedParams.Key1`, `ParsedParams.Key2`, `ParsedParams.Key3`, `ParsedParams.Key4`, `ParsedParams.Key5`, `ParsedParams.ValueDouble`, IslandID, RequestNum, RequestTry)) AS x │
│ FROM test.hits                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             │
│ PREWHERE URLDomain LIKE '%metrika%'                                                                                                                                                                                                                        │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

3 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.004 sec. 

milovidov-desktop :) EXPLAIN SYNTAX SELECT sum(cityHash64(*)) AS x FROM merge(test, '^hits$') WHERE URLDomain LIKE '%metrika%'

EXPLAIN SYNTAX
SELECT sum(cityHash64(*)) AS x
FROM merge(test, '^hits$')
WHERE URLDomain LIKE '%metrika%'

Query id: fb059673-7da1-4cf4-9713-e5c7b9feb66d

┌─explain────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ SELECT sum(cityHash64(WatchID, JavaEnable, Title, GoodEvent, EventTime, EventDate, CounterID, ClientIP, ClientIP6, RegionID, UserID, CounterClass, OS, UserAgent, URL, Referer, URLDomain, RefererDomain, Refresh, IsRobot, RefererCategories, URLCategories, URLRegions, RefererRegions, ResolutionWidth, ResolutionHeight, ResolutionDepth, FlashMajor, FlashMinor, FlashMinor2, NetMajor, NetMinor, UserAgentMajor, UserAgentMinor, CookieEnable, JavascriptEnable, IsMobile, MobilePhone, MobilePhoneModel, Params, IPNetworkID, TraficSourceID, SearchEngineID, SearchPhrase, AdvEngineID, IsArtifical, WindowClientWidth, WindowClientHeight, ClientTimeZone, ClientEventTime, SilverlightVersion1, SilverlightVersion2, SilverlightVersion3, SilverlightVersion4, PageCharset, CodeVersion, IsLink, IsDownload, IsNotBounce, FUniqID, HID, IsOldCounter, IsEvent, IsParameter, DontCountHits, WithHash, HitColor, UTCEventTime, Age, Sex, Income, Interests, Robotness, GeneralInterests, RemoteIP, RemoteIP6, WindowName, OpenerName, HistoryLength, BrowserLanguage, BrowserCountry, SocialNetwork, SocialAction, HTTPError, SendTiming, DNSTiming, ConnectTiming, ResponseStartTiming, ResponseEndTiming, FetchTiming, RedirectTiming, DOMInteractiveTiming, DOMContentLoadedTiming, DOMCompleteTiming, LoadEventStartTiming, LoadEventEndTiming, NSToDOMContentLoadedTiming, FirstPaintTiming, RedirectCount, SocialSourceNetworkID, SocialSourcePage, ParamPrice, ParamOrderID, ParamCurrency, ParamCurrencyID, GoalsReached, OpenstatServiceName, OpenstatCampaignID, OpenstatAdID, OpenstatSourceID, UTMSource, UTMMedium, UTMCampaign, UTMContent, UTMTerm, FromTag, HasGCLID, RefererHash, URLHash, CLID, YCLID, ShareService, ShareURL, ShareTitle, `ParsedParams.Key1`, `ParsedParams.Key2`, `ParsedParams.Key3`, `ParsedParams.Key4`, `ParsedParams.Key5`, `ParsedParams.ValueDouble`, IslandID, RequestNum, RequestTry)) AS x │
│ FROM merge('test', '^hits$')                                                                                                                                                                                                                               │
│ WHERE URLDomain LIKE '%metrika%'                                                                                                                                                                                                                           │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

Most likely because Merge table does not provide column sizes info.
We can provide it either:
- by iterating and summing across all tables;
- only for first N = 10 tables in case if the number of tables is very large.
const Names & column_names,
    const StorageMetadataPtr & metadata_snapshot,
    SelectQueryInfo & query_info,
    ContextPtr local_context,
    QueryProcessingStage::Enum processed_stage,
    const size_t max_block_size,
    unsigned num_streams)
{
    Pipes pipes;
    bool has_database_virtual_column = false;
    bool has_table_virtual_column = false;
    Names real_column_names;
    real_column_names.reserve(column_names.size());
    for (const auto & column_name : column_names)
    {
        if (column_name == "_database" && isVirtualColumn(column_name, metadata_snapshot))
            has_database_virtual_column = true;
        else if (column_name == "_table" && isVirtualColumn(column_name, metadata_snapshot))
            has_table_virtual_column = true;
        else
            real_column_names.push_back(column_name);
    }
    /** Just in case, turn off optimization "transfer to PREWHERE",
      * since there is no certainty that it works when one of table is MergeTree and other is not.
      */
    auto modified_context = Context::createCopy(local_context);
    modified_context->setSetting("optimize_move_to_prewhere", false);