DROP TABLE IF EXISTS merge_tree; CREATE TABLE merge_tree (d Date) ENGINE = MergeTree ORDER BY d PARTITION BY d; INSERT INTO merge_tree VALUES ('2020-01-01'), ('2020-01-02'), ('2020-01-03'), ('2020-01-04'), ('2020-01-05'), ('2020-01-06'); SELECT 1, * FROM merge_tree ORDER BY d; -- ALTER TABLE merge_tree DROP PARTITION 2020-01-02; -- This does not even parse -- SELECT 2, * FROM merge_tree; ALTER TABLE merge_tree DROP PARTITION 20200103; -- unfortunately, this works, but not as user expected. SELECT 3, * FROM merge_tree ORDER BY d; ALTER TABLE merge_tree DROP PARTITION '20200104'; SELECT 4, * FROM merge_tree ORDER BY d; ALTER TABLE merge_tree DROP PARTITION '2020-01-05'; SELECT 5, * FROM merge_tree ORDER BY d; ALTER TABLE merge_tree DROP PARTITION '202001-06'; -- { serverError CANNOT_PARSE_DATE } SELECT 6, * FROM merge_tree ORDER BY d; DROP TABLE merge_tree;