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