diff --git a/airbyte-db/db-lib/src/main/java/io/airbyte/db/IncrementalUtils.java b/airbyte-db/db-lib/src/main/java/io/airbyte/db/IncrementalUtils.java
index 6a73a03cc6bb..b251b9f18e66 100644
--- a/airbyte-db/db-lib/src/main/java/io/airbyte/db/IncrementalUtils.java
+++ b/airbyte-db/db-lib/src/main/java/io/airbyte/db/IncrementalUtils.java
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 import io.airbyte.protocol.models.ConfiguredAirbyteStream;
 import io.airbyte.protocol.models.JsonSchemaPrimitive;
+import java.util.Optional;
 
 public class IncrementalUtils {
 
@@ -22,6 +23,14 @@ public static String getCursorField(final ConfiguredAirbyteStream stream) {
     }
   }
 
+  public static Optional<String> getCursorFieldOptional(final ConfiguredAirbyteStream stream) {
+    try {
+      return Optional.ofNullable(getCursorField(stream));
+    } catch (IllegalStateException e) {
+      return Optional.empty();
+    }
+  }
+
   public static JsonSchemaPrimitive getCursorType(final ConfiguredAirbyteStream stream, final String cursorField) {
     if (stream.getStream().getJsonSchema().get(PROPERTIES) == null) {
       throw new IllegalStateException(String.format("No properties found in stream: %s.", stream.getStream().getName()));
diff --git a/airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-jdbc/src/main/java/io/airbyte/integrations/source/jdbc/AbstractJdbcSource.java b/airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-jdbc/src/main/java/io/airbyte/integrations/source/jdbc/AbstractJdbcSource.java
index 007abf97f920..d89da496b914 100644
--- a/airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-jdbc/src/main/java/io/airbyte/integrations/source/jdbc/AbstractJdbcSource.java
+++ b/airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-jdbc/src/main/java/io/airbyte/integrations/source/jdbc/AbstractJdbcSource.java
@@ -371,6 +371,11 @@ protected DataSource createDataSource(final JsonNode config) {
     return dataSource;
   }
 
+  @Override
+  protected boolean isValidCursorType(final Datatype cursorType) {
+    return sourceOperations.isCursorType(cursorType);
+  }
+
   @Override
   public JdbcDatabase createDatabase(final JsonNode config) throws SQLException {
     final DataSource dataSource = createDataSource(config);
diff --git a/airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-postgres/src/test/java/io/airbyte/integrations/source/postgres/PostgresSourceTest.java b/airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-postgres/src/test/java/io/airbyte/integrations/source/postgres/PostgresSourceTest.java
index 226b546ccba9..485dfe11e3c0 100644
--- a/airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-postgres/src/test/java/io/airbyte/integrations/source/postgres/PostgresSourceTest.java
+++ b/airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-postgres/src/test/java/io/airbyte/integrations/source/postgres/PostgresSourceTest.java
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 import static io.airbyte.integrations.source.postgres.utils.PostgresUnitTestsUtil.createRecord;
 import static io.airbyte.integrations.source.postgres.utils.PostgresUnitTestsUtil.map;
 import static io.airbyte.integrations.source.postgres.utils.PostgresUnitTestsUtil.setEmittedAtToNull;
+import static org.assertj.core.api.AssertionsForClassTypes.assertThat;
+import static org.assertj.core.api.AssertionsForClassTypes.catchThrowable;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
@@ -24,16 +26,20 @@
 import io.airbyte.db.factory.DSLContextFactory;
 import io.airbyte.db.factory.DatabaseDriver;
 import io.airbyte.db.jdbc.JdbcUtils;
+import io.airbyte.integrations.source.relationaldb.InvalidCursorException;
 import io.airbyte.protocol.models.AirbyteCatalog;
 import io.airbyte.protocol.models.AirbyteMessage;
 import io.airbyte.protocol.models.AirbyteStream;
 import io.airbyte.protocol.models.CatalogHelpers;
 import io.airbyte.protocol.models.ConfiguredAirbyteCatalog;
+import io.airbyte.protocol.models.ConfiguredAirbyteStream;
+import io.airbyte.protocol.models.DestinationSyncMode;
 import io.airbyte.protocol.models.Field;
 import io.airbyte.protocol.models.JsonSchemaType;
 import io.airbyte.protocol.models.SyncMode;
 import io.airbyte.test.utils.PostgreSQLContainerHelper;
 import java.math.BigDecimal;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -503,4 +509,45 @@ void testGetUsername() {
     assertEquals(username, PostgresSource.getUsername(azureConfig));
   }
 
+
+  @Test
+  public void tableWithInvalidCursorShouldThrowException() throws Exception {
+    try (final PostgreSQLContainer<?> db = new PostgreSQLContainer<>("postgres:13-alpine")) {
+      db.start();
+      final JsonNode config = getConfig(db);
+      try (final DSLContext dslContext = getDslContext(config)) {
+        final Database database = new Database(dslContext);
+        final ConfiguredAirbyteStream tableWithInvalidCursorType = createTableWithInvalidCursorType(database);
+        final ConfiguredAirbyteCatalog configuredAirbyteCatalog = new ConfiguredAirbyteCatalog().withStreams(Collections.singletonList(tableWithInvalidCursorType));
+
+        final Throwable throwable = catchThrowable(() -> MoreIterators.toSet(new PostgresSource().read(config, configuredAirbyteCatalog, null)));
+        assertThat(throwable).isInstanceOf(InvalidCursorException.class)
+            .hasMessageContaining(
+                "The following tables have invalid columns selected as cursor, please select a column with a well-defined ordering as a cursor. {tableName='public.test_table', cursorColumnName='id', cursorSqlType=OTHER}");
+      } finally {
+        db.stop();
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  private ConfiguredAirbyteStream createTableWithInvalidCursorType(final Database database) throws SQLException {
+    database.query(ctx -> {
+      ctx.fetch("CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS \"uuid-ossp\";");
+      ctx.fetch("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS public.test_table(id uuid PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT uuid_generate_v4());");
+      return null;
+    });
+
+    return new ConfiguredAirbyteStream().withSyncMode(SyncMode.INCREMENTAL)
+        .withCursorField(Lists.newArrayList("id"))
+        .withDestinationSyncMode(DestinationSyncMode.APPEND)
+        .withSyncMode(SyncMode.INCREMENTAL)
+        .withStream(CatalogHelpers.createAirbyteStream(
+                "test_table",
+                "public",
+                Field.of("id", JsonSchemaType.STRING))
+            .withSupportedSyncModes(Lists.newArrayList(SyncMode.FULL_REFRESH, SyncMode.INCREMENTAL))
+            .withSourceDefinedPrimaryKey(List.of(List.of("id"))));
+
+  }
+
 }
diff --git a/airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-relational-db/src/main/java/io/airbyte/integrations/source/relationaldb/AbstractDbSource.java b/airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-relational-db/src/main/java/io/airbyte/integrations/source/relationaldb/AbstractDbSource.java
index e4c5d7724147..19c82513c110 100644
--- a/airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-relational-db/src/main/java/io/airbyte/integrations/source/relationaldb/AbstractDbSource.java
+++ b/airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-relational-db/src/main/java/io/airbyte/integrations/source/relationaldb/AbstractDbSource.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import io.airbyte.integrations.BaseConnector;
 import io.airbyte.integrations.base.AirbyteStreamNameNamespacePair;
 import io.airbyte.integrations.base.Source;
+import io.airbyte.integrations.source.relationaldb.InvalidCursorException.InvalidCursorInfo;
 import io.airbyte.integrations.source.relationaldb.models.DbState;
 import io.airbyte.integrations.source.relationaldb.state.StateManager;
 import io.airbyte.integrations.source.relationaldb.state.StateManagerFactory;
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Objects;
 import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
@@ -136,6 +138,8 @@ public AutoCloseableIterator<AirbyteMessage> read(final JsonNode config,
             .collect(Collectors.toMap(t -> String.format("%s.%s", t.getNameSpace(), t.getName()), Function
                 .identity()));
 
+    validateCursorFieldForIncrementalTables(fullyQualifiedTableNameToInfo, catalog);
+
     final List<AutoCloseableIterator<AirbyteMessage>> incrementalIterators =
         getIncrementalIterators(database, catalog, fullyQualifiedTableNameToInfo, stateManager, emittedAt);
     final List<AutoCloseableIterator<AirbyteMessage>> fullRefreshIterators =
@@ -153,6 +157,42 @@ public AutoCloseableIterator<AirbyteMessage> read(final JsonNode config,
         });
   }
 
+  private void validateCursorFieldForIncrementalTables(final Map<String, TableInfo<CommonField<DataType>>> tableNameToTable, final ConfiguredAirbyteCatalog catalog) {
+    final List<InvalidCursorInfo> tablesWithInvalidCursor = new ArrayList<>();
+    for (final ConfiguredAirbyteStream airbyteStream : catalog.getStreams()) {
+      final AirbyteStream stream = airbyteStream.getStream();
+      final String fullyQualifiedTableName = getFullyQualifiedTableName(stream.getNamespace(),
+          stream.getName());
+      final boolean hasSourceDefinedCursor =
+          !Objects.isNull(airbyteStream.getStream().getSourceDefinedCursor()) && airbyteStream.getStream().getSourceDefinedCursor();
+      if (!tableNameToTable.containsKey(fullyQualifiedTableName) || airbyteStream.getSyncMode() != SyncMode.INCREMENTAL || hasSourceDefinedCursor) {
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      final TableInfo<CommonField<DataType>> table = tableNameToTable
+          .get(fullyQualifiedTableName);
+      final Optional<String> cursorField = IncrementalUtils.getCursorFieldOptional(airbyteStream);
+      if (cursorField.isEmpty()) {
+        continue;
+      }
+      final DataType cursorType = table.getFields().stream()
+          .filter(info -> info.getName().equals(cursorField.get()))
+          .map(CommonField::getType)
+          .findFirst()
+          .orElseThrow();
+
+      if (!isValidCursorType(cursorType)) {
+        tablesWithInvalidCursor.add(new InvalidCursorInfo(fullyQualifiedTableName, cursorField.get(), cursorType.toString()));
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (!tablesWithInvalidCursor.isEmpty()) {
+      throw new InvalidCursorException(tablesWithInvalidCursor);
+    }
+  }
+
+  protected abstract boolean isValidCursorType(final DataType cursorType);
+
   protected List<TableInfo<CommonField<DataType>>> discoverWithoutSystemTables(final Database database) throws Exception {
     final Set<String> systemNameSpaces = getExcludedInternalNameSpaces();
     final List<TableInfo<CommonField<DataType>>> discoveredTables = discoverInternal(database);
diff --git a/airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-relational-db/src/main/java/io/airbyte/integrations/source/relationaldb/InvalidCursorException.java b/airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-relational-db/src/main/java/io/airbyte/integrations/source/relationaldb/InvalidCursorException.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..97cf102cab35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-relational-db/src/main/java/io/airbyte/integrations/source/relationaldb/InvalidCursorException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package io.airbyte.integrations.source.relationaldb;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+public class InvalidCursorException extends RuntimeException {
+
+  public InvalidCursorException(final List<InvalidCursorInfo> tablesWithInvalidCursor) {
+    super("The following tables have invalid columns selected as cursor, please select a column with a well-defined ordering as a cursor. " + tablesWithInvalidCursor.stream().map(InvalidCursorInfo::toString)
+        .collect(Collectors.joining(",")));
+  }
+
+  public record InvalidCursorInfo(String tableName, String cursorColumnName, String cursorSqlType) {
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+      return "{" +
+          "tableName='" + tableName + '\'' +
+          ", cursorColumnName='" + cursorColumnName + '\'' +
+          ", cursorSqlType=" + cursorSqlType +
+          '}';
+    }
+  }
+
+
+}