Comment 13 for bug 5415

This is now much better, and I am unable to get timeouts when doing most searches.

However, you can still reliably time out when searching for "a". I think this is now just a matter of issuing some gnarly COUNT(*) queries, as you can see from OOPS-62B222

It could also be that these queries are the tip of the iceberg and that once they succeed a huge number of smaller queries will be issued, which will eventually time out as well.