Github user sureshthalamati commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/12904#issuecomment-217765505 I am not sure what was the history behind returning empty String for null value. In my opinion it should be null be default. current behavior is also inconsistent; for numerics it will return null and for strings it will return empty string by default. Example: See the Year (int), and comment (String in the following data). year,make,model,comment,price 2017,Tesla,Mode 3,looks nice.,35000.99 ,Chevy,Bolt,,29000.00 2015,Porsche,"",, scala> val df= sqlContext.read.format("csv").option("header", "true").option("inferSchema", "true").load("/tmp/test1.csv") df: org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame = [year: int, make: string ... 3 more fields] scala> df.show +----+-------+------+-----------+--------+ |year| make| model| comment| price| +----+-------+------+-----------+--------+ |2017| Tesla|Mode 3|looks nice.|35000.99| |null| Chevy| Bolt| | 29000.0| |2015|Porsche| null| | null| +----+-------+------+-----------+--------+ I can update this PR to change the nullValue default if needed,
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