Re: slug permalinks can lead to db problems
Thanks for your thoughtful response, sam! That sounds great to me! 
FYI, I also came across this query repeatedly in my slow query log:
SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS * FROM bb_topics WHERE topic_status = 0 AND forum_id = 1 AND topic_sticky = 0 ORDER BY topic_time DESC LIMIT 40, 20;
topic_sticky isn’t indexed (in either 0.83 or 0.91, I checked both). Should it be? It’s a tinyint(1), so indexing it should cost very little while improving performance a lot, I think?
