DROP TABLE IF EXISTS test.prewhere; CREATE TABLE test.prewhere (d Date, a String, b String) ENGINE = MergeTree(d, d, 8192); INSERT INTO test.prewhere VALUES ('2015-01-01', 'hello', 'world'); ALTER TABLE test.prewhere ADD COLUMN a1 String AFTER a; INSERT INTO test.prewhere VALUES ('2015-01-01', 'hello1', 'xxx', 'world1'); SELECT d, a, a1, b FROM test.prewhere PREWHERE a LIKE 'hello%' ORDER BY a1; DROP TABLE test.prewhere;