What array is the "Thread" information stored in?

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I'm making a plugin / addon for my board, and currently I am using a SELECT statement for every postbit. This is adding an overhead on the SQL server, because it essentially add's a query for every post.

I'm looking to collect all of the "posts" in a Thread before it is displayed so that I can run a single query against the database and dump it to an array, which will then be parsed by the postbit instead. I assume this is how VB is already doing this for the threads, so I want to access whatever is in the "thread" array.

I'm curious if anyone can tell me what this array is called, and it's identifiers.

Thank you.

Harry