[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Dechevious

Actually, it adds no additional query, as it was merged with an existing query.

Hey guys. I was just doing something like this for a hack I am working on. The only problem that I found doing it this way was that it does in fact add additional queries: 1 for each image.
If your forum displays 30 threads, there are 30 additional queries as attachment.php queries the attachment table everytime its called.

It still didnt add too much overhead, but it may cause a problem on servers with heavy loads.