From 7a5f9303a9ed8e9efa25f8264ed491644e451645 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jo=C3=A3o=20Barbosa?= <joao.paulo.barbosa@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 15:49:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid slow transaction search with txindex enabled

---
 src/validation.cpp | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/validation.cpp b/src/validation.cpp
index 1a1c1941e..d19521bd3 100644
--- a/src/validation.cpp
+++ b/src/validation.cpp
@@ -939,6 +939,9 @@ bool GetTransaction(const uint256 &hash, CTransactionRef &txOut, const Consensus
                 return error("%s: txid mismatch", __func__);
             return true;
         }
+
+        // transaction not found in index, nothing more can be done
+        return false;
     }
 
     if (fAllowSlow) { // use coin database to locate block that contains transaction, and scan it