SELECT 
  pfv.variant_id, 
  pfv.position, 
  pfvd.variant 
FROM 
  cscart_product_feature_variants AS pfv 
  INNER JOIN cscart_product_feature_variant_descriptions AS pfvd ON pfv.variant_id = pfvd.variant_id 
  AND pfvd.lang_code = 'en' 
WHERE 
  pfv.variant_id IN (
    1516, 1463, 1279, 1518, 1523, 1517, 1515, 
    1525, 1526, 1527, 1524, 1528, 1532, 
    1521, 1533, 1531, 1530
  )

Query time 0.00044

JSON explain

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