SELECT 
  category_id 
FROM 
  cscart_categories 
WHERE 
  id_path LIKE '2/3/%'

Query time 0.00049

JSON explain

{
  "query_block": {
    "select_id": 1,
    "cost_info": {
      "query_cost": "3.41"
    },
    "table": {
      "table_name": "cscart_categories",
      "access_type": "range",
      "possible_keys": [
        "id_path"
      ],
      "key": "id_path",
      "used_key_parts": [
        "id_path"
      ],
      "key_length": "767",
      "rows_examined_per_scan": 7,
      "rows_produced_per_join": 7,
      "filtered": "100.00",
      "index_condition": "(`test_uchur_k`.`cscart_categories`.`id_path` like '2/3/%')",
      "cost_info": {
        "read_cost": "2.71",
        "eval_cost": "0.70",
        "prefix_cost": "3.41",
        "data_read_per_join": "37K"
      },
      "used_columns": [
        "category_id",
        "id_path"
      ]
    }
  }
}