# Xtradb-cluster-operator: SmartUpdate schedule ignored

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/xtradb-cluster-operator-smartupdate-schedule-ignored/22685>\
**Category:** Percona XtraDB Cluster\
**Created:** [June 8, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtradb-cluster-operator-smartupdate-schedule-ignored/22685 "2023-06-08T19:18:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![pavloos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eb8c5e/32.png) [@pavloos](https://forums.percona.com/u/pavloos)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtradb-cluster-operator-smartupdate-schedule-ignored/22685/1 "2023-06-08T19:18:38Z")

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Greetings.

Operator version: percona/percona-xtradb-cluster-operator:1.12.0

I have PXC cluster running in kubernetes and would like to understand how does `smartUpdate` feature exactly work.

According to [this](https://docs.percona.com/percona-operator-for-mysql/pxc/update.html#more-on-upgrade-strategies)

> `SmartUpdate` strategy is not just for simplifying upgrades. Being turned on, it allows to disable automatic upgrades, and still controls restarting Pods in a proper order for changes triggered by other events, such as updating a ConfigMap, rotating a password, or changing resource values.

however this does ot seem to be the case and updating, for example `pxc.configuration` restarts cluster immediately regardless of schedule in the `upgradeOptions`:

```auto
updateStrategy: SmartUpdate
upgradeOptions:
    apply: Never
    schedule: 0 4 * * *
    versionServiceEndpoint: https://check.percona.com

```

How can I control when a cluster will be restarted for modifications?

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**Author:** ![pavloos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eb8c5e/32.png) [@pavloos](https://forums.percona.com/u/pavloos)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 11:56am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/xtradb-cluster-operator-smartupdate-schedule-ignored/22685/2 "2023-06-16T11:56:15Z")

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I think I was too optimistic when reading that documentation 🙂

I created a feature request for this [[K8SPXC-1258] Expand SmartUpdate schedule to work not only for version upgrades but for other changes as well - Percona JIRA](https://jira.percona.com/browse/K8SPXC-1258)