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When fetching and ranking ext. tasks by priority, I want to use the creation time of the task as a secondary sorting. This ensures that no external tasks starve in high load situations. The engine has already a similar feature for job execution: https://docs.camunda.org/manual/7.14/user-guide/process-engine/the-job-executor/#the-job-order-of-job-acquisition

For the fetch and lock request (Java and REST API), there is a new parameter to toggle ordering by creation time
If priority is also used, the creation time ordering is the secondary ordering
If priority is not used, the creation time ordering is the primary ordering
If the creation time parameter is not set, the behavior is the same as it is now (i.e. undefined with respect to creation time)

Creation time of tasks is stored in the external task runtime table
Evaluate if we should new indexes to the schema (see also https://docs.camunda.org/manual/7.14/user-guide/process-engine/the-job-executor/#the-job-order-of-job-acquisition for how this is solved for jobs)

I can fetch and lock external tasks in the order of creation