**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.
bool supportsIndexForIn() const override { return true; }
    bool supportsSubcolumns() const override { return true; }
    QueryProcessingStage::Enum
    getQueryProcessingStage(ContextPtr, QueryProcessingStage::Enum, const StorageMetadataPtr &, SelectQueryInfo &) const override;
    Pipe read(
        const Names & column_names,
        const StorageMetadataPtr & ,
        SelectQueryInfo & query_info,
        ContextPtr context,
        QueryProcessingStage::Enum processed_stage,
        size_t max_block_size,
        unsigned num_streams) override;
    void checkAlterIsPossible(const AlterCommands & commands, ContextPtr context) const override;
    
    
    void alter(const AlterCommands & params, ContextPtr context, AlterLockHolder & table_lock_holder) override;
    bool mayBenefitFromIndexForIn(
        const ASTPtr & left_in_operand, ContextPtr query_context, const StorageMetadataPtr & metadata_snapshot) const override;
    
    static std::tuple<bool , ASTPtr> evaluateDatabaseName(const ASTPtr & node, ContextPtr context);
private:
    using DBToTableSetMap = std::map<String, std::set<String>>;
    std::optional<OptimizedRegularExpression> source_database_regexp;
    std::optional<OptimizedRegularExpression> source_table_regexp;
    std::optional<DBToTableSetMap> source_databases_and_tables;
    String source_database_name_or_regexp;
    bool database_is_regexp = false;
    
    using StorageWithLockAndName = std::tuple<String, StoragePtr, TableLockHolder, String>;
    using StorageListWithLocks = std::list<StorageWithLockAndName>;