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by jaggederest 1158 days ago
No, it's really not, and that's why I say it must sometimes be done. Certainly if you're running tens or hundreds of copies of the query per minute, one more won't hurt (much).

The real problem you run into is when the query in question is doing something pathologically bad - locking a bunch of tables and then grinding away for an hour, which effectively is a denial of service attack.