**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.
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        throw Exception("Method write is not supported by storage " + getName(), ErrorCodes::NOT_IMPLEMENTED);
    }
    /** Writes the data to a table in distributed manner.
      * It is supposed that implementation looks into SELECT part of the query and executes distributed
      * INSERT SELECT if it is possible with current storage as a receiver and query SELECT part as a producer.
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      */
    virtual QueryPipelineBuilderPtr distributedWrite(
        const ASTInsertQuery & ,
        ContextPtr )
    {
        return nullptr;
    }
    /** Delete the table data. Called before deleting the directory with the data.
      * The method can be called only after detaching table from Context (when no queries are performed with table).
      * The table is not usable during and after call to this method.
      * If some queries may still use the table, then it must be called under exclusive lock.
      * If you do not need any action other than deleting the directory with data, you can leave this method blank.
      */
    virtual void drop() {}
    virtual void dropInnerTableIfAny(bool , ContextPtr ) {}
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      */
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