diff --git a/c++/src/sargs/PredicateLeaf.cc b/c++/src/sargs/PredicateLeaf.cc
index d9df1c5d5c..5c77616836 100644
--- a/c++/src/sargs/PredicateLeaf.cc
+++ b/c++/src/sargs/PredicateLeaf.cc
@@ -701,6 +701,9 @@ namespace orc {
       }
     }
 
+    // files written by trino may lack of hasnull field.
+    if (!colStats.has_has_null()) return TruthValue::YES_NO_NULL;
+
     bool allNull = colStats.has_null() && colStats.number_of_values() == 0;
     if (operator_ == Operator::IS_NULL ||
         ((operator_ == Operator::EQUALS || operator_ == Operator::NULL_SAFE_EQUALS) &&
diff --git a/c++/test/TestPredicateLeaf.cc b/c++/test/TestPredicateLeaf.cc
index 2703776e39..3946123ec5 100644
--- a/c++/test/TestPredicateLeaf.cc
+++ b/c++/test/TestPredicateLeaf.cc
@@ -168,6 +168,12 @@ namespace orc {
     return colStats;
   }
 
+  static proto::ColumnStatistics createIncompleteNullStats() {
+    proto::ColumnStatistics colStats;
+    colStats.set_number_of_values(0);
+    return colStats;
+  }
+
   static TruthValue evaluate(const PredicateLeaf& pred, const proto::ColumnStatistics& pbStats,
                              const BloomFilter* bf = nullptr) {
     return pred.evaluate(WriterVersion_ORC_135, pbStats, bf);
@@ -663,4 +669,10 @@ namespace orc {
               evaluate(pred8, createTimestampStats(2114380800, 1109000, 2114380800, 6789100)));
   }
 
+  TEST(TestPredicateLeaf, testLackOfSataistics) {
+    PredicateLeaf pred(PredicateLeaf::Operator::IS_NULL, PredicateDataType::STRING, 1, {});
+    EXPECT_EQ(TruthValue::YES_NO, evaluate(pred, createStringStats("c", "d", true)));
+    EXPECT_EQ(TruthValue::YES_NO_NULL, evaluate(pred, createIncompleteNullStats()));
+  }
+
 }  // namespace orc