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, 
  cscart_product_descriptions.unit_name 
FROM 
  cscart_product_descriptions 
WHERE 
  cscart_product_descriptions.product_id IN (
    12, 232, 18, 1, 227, 60, 201, 233, 152, 
    34, 278, 46, 45, 8, 44, 181
  ) 
  AND cscart_product_descriptions.lang_code = 'en'

Query time 0.00044

JSON explain

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    "cost_info": {
      "query_cost": "38.41"
    },
    "table": {
      "table_name": "cscart_product_descriptions",
      "access_type": "range",
      "possible_keys": [
        "PRIMARY",
        "product_id"
      ],
      "key": "PRIMARY",
      "used_key_parts": [
        "product_id",
        "lang_code"
      ],
      "key_length": "9",
      "rows_examined_per_scan": 16,
      "rows_produced_per_join": 16,
      "filtered": "100.00",
      "index_condition": "((`rajansecarter_15_june_mve`.`cscart_product_descriptions`.`product_id` in (12,232,18,1,227,60,201,233,152,34,278,46,45,8,44,181)) and (`rajansecarter_15_june_mve`.`cscart_product_descriptions`.`lang_code` = 'en'))",
      "cost_info": {
        "read_cost": "35.21",
        "eval_cost": "3.20",
        "prefix_cost": "38.41",
        "data_read_per_join": "73K"
      },
      "used_columns": [
        "product_id",
        "lang_code",
        "short_description",
        "full_description",
        "unit_name"
      ]
    }
  }
}