**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 Settings & settings = context->getSettingsRef();
    auto finish_sorting_step = std::make_unique<SortingStep>(
        query_plan.getCurrentDataStream(),
        input_sorting_info->order_key_prefix_descr,
        output_order_descr,
        settings.max_block_size,
        limit);
    query_plan.addStep(std::move(finish_sorting_step));
}
void InterpreterSelectQuery::executeOrder(QueryPlan & query_plan, InputOrderInfoPtr input_sorting_info)
{
    auto & query = getSelectQuery();
    SortDescription output_order_descr = getSortDescription(query, context);
    UInt64 limit = getLimitForSorting(query, context);
    if (input_sorting_info)
    {
        /* Case of sorting with optimization using sorting key.
         * We have several threads, each of them reads batch of parts in direct
         *  or reverse order of sorting key using one input stream per part
         *  and then merge them into one sorted stream.
         * At this stage we merge per-thread streams into one.
         */
        executeOrderOptimized(query_plan, input_sorting_info, limit, output_order_descr);
        return;
    }
    const Settings & settings = context->getSettingsRef();