</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">So, at some point earlier in the viewflat script you must already have already encountered that user and his/her userdata.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">What if the thread takes more than one page to display, and the relevant post is on a previous page? I don't think the information would be available without additional queries, but I'd have to examine the code to verify that.

It might be worthwhile to add the extra queries in, and do a benchmark, just to see how much extra processing is really involved.