SELECT 
  cscart_product_descriptions.product_id, 
  cscart_product_descriptions.short_description, 
  IF(
    cscart_product_descriptions.short_description = '' 
    OR cscart_product_descriptions.short_description IS NULL, 
    cscart_product_descriptions.full_description, 
    ''
  ) AS full_description 
FROM 
  cscart_product_descriptions 
WHERE 
  cscart_product_descriptions.product_id IN (415311) 
  AND cscart_product_descriptions.lang_code = 'en'

Query time 0.00035

JSON explain

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    "select_id": 1,
    "cost_info": {
      "query_cost": "1.00"
    },
    "table": {
      "table_name": "cscart_product_descriptions",
      "access_type": "const",
      "possible_keys": [
        "PRIMARY",
        "product_id"
      ],
      "key": "PRIMARY",
      "used_key_parts": [
        "product_id",
        "lang_code"
      ],
      "key_length": "9",
      "ref": [
        "const",
        "const"
      ],
      "rows_examined_per_scan": 1,
      "rows_produced_per_join": 1,
      "filtered": "100.00",
      "cost_info": {
        "read_cost": "0.00",
        "eval_cost": "0.20",
        "prefix_cost": "0.00",
        "data_read_per_join": "6K"
      },
      "used_columns": [
        "product_id",
        "lang_code",
        "short_description",
        "full_description"
      ]
    }
  }
}