drop table if exists x; create table x (i int, j int) engine MergeTree partition by i order by j settings index_granularity = 1; insert into x values (1, 1), (1, 2), (1, 3), (2, 4), (2, 5), (2, 6); set max_rows_to_read = 3; select * from x where _partition_id = partitionId(1); set max_rows_to_read = 4; -- one row for subquery select * from x where _partition_id in (select partitionId(number + 1) from numbers(1)); -- trivial count optimization test set max_rows_to_read = 1; -- one row for subquery select count() from x where _partition_id in (select partitionId(number + 1) from numbers(1)); drop table x; drop table if exists mt; create table mt (n UInt64) engine=MergeTree order by n partition by n % 10; set max_rows_to_read = 200; insert into mt select * from numbers(100); select * from mt where toUInt64(substr(_part, 1, position(_part, '_') - 1)) = 1; drop table mt;