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Originally Posted by tpearl5
Well, either way you'd have a query since you still have to get the data. Storing in the thread table would require a join that could slow things down on very large forums. ...
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I was basing that on the idea that if you add a column to the thread table it would get read in with the rest of the row for the current thread, so you wouldn't have to do anything else. But I'm not 100% sure of that, I'd have to check the code.
If I understood you, you want the word count for the first post of a thread even if it's not being displayed on the current page? Then you'd either have to store that same count in each post of the thread or else always read the first post.