select the fileid first when looking for incomplete files

this seems to improve mariadbs index selection

Signed-off-by: Robin Appelman <robin@icewind.nl>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/lib/private/Files/Cache/Cache.php b/lib/private/Files/Cache/Cache.php
index bf459b2ff86..9805fd1601f 100644
--- a/lib/private/Files/Cache/Cache.php
+++ b/lib/private/Files/Cache/Cache.php
@@ -984,8 +984,12 @@ class Cache implements ICache {
 	 * @return string|false the path of the folder or false when no folder matched
 	 */
 	public function getIncomplete() {
+		// we select the fileid here first instead of directly selecting the path since this helps mariadb/mysql
+		// to use the correct index.
+		// The overhead of this should be minimal since the cost of selecting the path by id should be much lower
+		// than the cost of finding an item with size < 0
 		$query = $this->getQueryBuilder();
-		$query->select('path')
+		$query->select('fileid')
 			->from('filecache')
 			->whereStorageId($this->getNumericStorageId())
 			->andWhere($query->expr()->lt('size', $query->createNamedParameter(0, IQueryBuilder::PARAM_INT)))
@@ -993,15 +997,15 @@ class Cache implements ICache {
 			->setMaxResults(1);
 
 		$result = $query->execute();
-		$path = $result->fetchOne();
+		$id = $result->fetchOne();
 		$result->closeCursor();
 
-		if ($path === false) {
+		if ($id === false) {
 			return false;
 		}
 
-		// Make sure Oracle does not continue with null for empty strings
-		return (string)$path;
+		$path = $this->getPathById($id);
+		return $path ?? false;
 	}
 
 	/**