I have not tried this in a while but I think a SELECT with a "hint" will return rows in the order of the index in the hint. This does NOT work for distributed queries. > On 09/12/2023 9:10 AM EDT Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 12 Sep 2023, at 14:26, Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > El día martes, septiembre 12, 2023 a las 02:19:19 +0200, Peter J. Holzer escribió: > > > >>> - Or can we add additional parameters to the ora2pg.conf file to control this > >>> process and ensure that the data is imported sequentially, following the > >>> primary key from smallest to largest? > > > > AFAIK, a simple SELECT in PostgreSQL without an ORDER BY will return the rows > > in random order. > > It will return the rows in some order, without guarantees about randomness or > asc/desc ordering. Any query which relies on ordering, whichever is wanted, > should include an ORDER BY clause. > > -- > Daniel Gustafsson