Do not add + 1 to the InnoDB index cardinality estimate if the B-tree just contains one page; the fix made in March 2004 caused InnoDB systematically to overestimate the cardinality of empty or small tables by 1


innobase/btr/btr0cur.c:
  Do not add + 1 to the InnoDB index cardinality estimate if the B-tree just contains one page; the fix made in March 2004 caused InnoDB systematically to overestimate the cardinality of empty or small tables by 1