ClickHouse/docs/en/sql-reference/statements/optimize.md

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47	OPTIMIZE

OPTIMIZE Statement

OPTIMIZE TABLE [db.]name [ON CLUSTER cluster] [PARTITION partition | PARTITION ID 'partition_id'] [FINAL] [DEDUPLICATE]

This query tries to initialize an unscheduled merge of data parts for tables with a table engine from the MergeTree family.

The OPTMIZE query is also supported for the MaterializedView and the Buffer engines. Other table engines aren’t supported.

When OPTIMIZE is used with the ReplicatedMergeTree family of table engines, ClickHouse creates a task for merging and waits for execution on all nodes (if the replication_alter_partitions_sync setting is enabled).

• If OPTIMIZE doesn’t perform a merge for any reason, it doesn’t notify the client. To enable notifications, use the optimize_throw_if_noop setting.
• If you specify a PARTITION, only the specified partition is optimized. How to set partition expression.
• If you specify FINAL, optimization is performed even when all the data is already in one part. Also merge is forced even if concurrent merges are performed.
• If you specify DEDUPLICATE, then completely identical rows will be deduplicated (all columns are compared), it makes sense only for the MergeTree engine.

!!! warning "Warning" OPTIMIZE can’t fix the “Too many parts” error.