What is the point of the postparsed table?

[tim330i]

I'm trying to update post text from a cron and I'm running into the issue that a few people had in regard to the text being in both the post and postparsed table. The solution is to use the datamanager or delete the row from the postparsed table.

I can't figure out how to make the datamanager work, so if someone could help with that it seems best, otherwise I can delete out of the postparsed table, but I would like to know the point of that table first.

Thanks,
Tim

[calorie]

See the vB ACP -> vBulletin Options -> Server Settings and Optimization Options -> Cached Posts Lifespan option:
Posts are normally stored with bbcode tags etc. in the same form as the user posted them with so that it may be edited later, and then parsed at display time. By caching them, they are parsed at post time (instead of display time) into the HTML they will be displayed in and stored separately from the pre-parsed posts. This results in a faster display on threads, since the posts do not have to be parsed at display time.