diff --git a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/HoodieSparkSqlWriter.scala b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/HoodieSparkSqlWriter.scala
index c86b1615ba58d..3e286486471be 100644
--- a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/HoodieSparkSqlWriter.scala
+++ b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/HoodieSparkSqlWriter.scala
@@ -151,7 +151,9 @@ object HoodieSparkSqlWriter {
           .setBaseFileFormat(baseFileFormat)
           .setArchiveLogFolder(archiveLogFolder)
           .setPayloadClassName(hoodieConfig.getString(PAYLOAD_CLASS_NAME))
-          .setPreCombineField(hoodieConfig.getStringOrDefault(PRECOMBINE_FIELD, null))
+          // we can't fetch preCombine field from hoodieConfig object, since it falls back to "ts" as default value,
+          // but we are interested in what user has set, hence fetching from optParams.
+          .setPreCombineField(optParams.getOrElse(PRECOMBINE_FIELD.key(), null))
           .setPartitionFields(partitionColumns)
           .setPopulateMetaFields(populateMetaFields)
           .setRecordKeyFields(hoodieConfig.getString(RECORDKEY_FIELD))
diff --git a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/hudi/functional/TestCOWDataSource.scala b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/hudi/functional/TestCOWDataSource.scala
index 000004ace9ad4..5db98f7a3744c 100644
--- a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/hudi/functional/TestCOWDataSource.scala
+++ b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/hudi/functional/TestCOWDataSource.scala
@@ -96,6 +96,26 @@ class TestCOWDataSource extends HoodieClientTestBase {
     assertTrue(HoodieDataSourceHelpers.hasNewCommits(fs, basePath, "000"))
   }
 
+  @Test def testNoPrecombine() {
+    // Insert Operation
+    val records = recordsToStrings(dataGen.generateInserts("000", 100)).toList
+    val inputDF = spark.read.json(spark.sparkContext.parallelize(records, 2))
+
+    val commonOptsNoPreCombine = Map(
+      "hoodie.insert.shuffle.parallelism" -> "4",
+      "hoodie.upsert.shuffle.parallelism" -> "4",
+      DataSourceWriteOptions.RECORDKEY_FIELD.key -> "_row_key",
+      DataSourceWriteOptions.PARTITIONPATH_FIELD.key -> "partition",
+      HoodieWriteConfig.TBL_NAME.key -> "hoodie_test"
+    )
+    inputDF.write.format("hudi")
+      .options(commonOptsNoPreCombine)
+      .option(DataSourceWriteOptions.OPERATION.key, DataSourceWriteOptions.INSERT_OPERATION_OPT_VAL)
+      .mode(SaveMode.Overwrite)
+      .save(basePath)
+
+    spark.read.format("org.apache.hudi").load(basePath).count()
+  }
 
   @Test def testHoodieIsDeletedNonBooleanField() {
     // Insert Operation
diff --git a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/hudi/functional/TestMORDataSource.scala b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/hudi/functional/TestMORDataSource.scala
index d8ebe5cbcd8b0..e3ead19753608 100644
--- a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/hudi/functional/TestMORDataSource.scala
+++ b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/hudi/functional/TestMORDataSource.scala
@@ -499,6 +499,28 @@ class TestMORDataSource extends HoodieClientTestBase {
     hudiSnapshotDF2.show(1)
   }
 
+  @Test def testNoPrecombine() {
+    // Insert Operation
+    val records = recordsToStrings(dataGen.generateInserts("000", 100)).toList
+    val inputDF = spark.read.json(spark.sparkContext.parallelize(records, 2))
+
+    val commonOptsNoPreCombine = Map(
+      "hoodie.insert.shuffle.parallelism" -> "4",
+      "hoodie.upsert.shuffle.parallelism" -> "4",
+      DataSourceWriteOptions.RECORDKEY_FIELD.key -> "_row_key",
+      DataSourceWriteOptions.PARTITIONPATH_FIELD.key -> "partition",
+      HoodieWriteConfig.TBL_NAME.key -> "hoodie_test"
+    )
+    inputDF.write.format("hudi")
+      .options(commonOptsNoPreCombine)
+      .option(DataSourceWriteOptions.OPERATION.key, DataSourceWriteOptions.INSERT_OPERATION_OPT_VAL)
+      .option(DataSourceWriteOptions.TABLE_TYPE.key(), "MERGE_ON_READ")
+      .mode(SaveMode.Overwrite)
+      .save(basePath)
+
+    spark.read.format("org.apache.hudi").load(basePath).count()
+  }
+
   @Test
   def testPreCombineFiledForReadMOR(): Unit = {
     writeData((1, "a0", 10, 100, false))
diff --git a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hudi/TestCreateTable.scala b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hudi/TestCreateTable.scala
index 8ebef198af458..6b8efb84e32f1 100644
--- a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hudi/TestCreateTable.scala
+++ b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hudi/TestCreateTable.scala
@@ -263,83 +263,100 @@ class TestCreateTable extends TestHoodieSqlBase {
 
   test("Test Create Table As Select") {
     withTempDir { tmp =>
-      // Create Non-Partitioned table
-      val tableName1 = generateTableName
-      spark.sql(
-        s"""
-           | create table $tableName1 using hudi
-           | tblproperties(primaryKey = 'id')
-           | location '${tmp.getCanonicalPath}/$tableName1'
-           | AS
-           | select 1 as id, 'a1' as name, 10 as price, 1000 as ts
+      Seq("cow", "mor").foreach { tableType =>
+        // Create Non-Partitioned table
+        val tableName1 = generateTableName
+        spark.sql(
+          s"""
+             | create table $tableName1 using hudi
+             | tblproperties(
+             |    primaryKey = 'id',
+             |    type = '$tableType'
+             | )
+             | location '${tmp.getCanonicalPath}/$tableName1'
+             | AS
+             | select 1 as id, 'a1' as name, 10 as price, 1000 as ts
        """.stripMargin)
-      checkAnswer(s"select id, name, price, ts from $tableName1")(
-        Seq(1, "a1", 10.0, 1000)
-      )
+        checkAnswer(s"select id, name, price, ts from $tableName1")(
+          Seq(1, "a1", 10.0, 1000)
+        )
 
-      // Create Partitioned table
-      val tableName2 = generateTableName
-      spark.sql(
-        s"""
-           | create table $tableName2 using hudi
-           | partitioned by (dt)
-           | tblproperties(primaryKey = 'id')
-           | location '${tmp.getCanonicalPath}/$tableName2'
-           | AS
-           | select 1 as id, 'a1' as name, 10 as price, '2021-04-01' as dt
+        // Create Partitioned table
+        val tableName2 = generateTableName
+        spark.sql(
+          s"""
+             | create table $tableName2 using hudi
+             | partitioned by (dt)
+             | tblproperties(
+             |    primaryKey = 'id',
+             |    type = '$tableType'
+             | )
+             | location '${tmp.getCanonicalPath}/$tableName2'
+             | AS
+             | select 1 as id, 'a1' as name, 10 as price, '2021-04-01' as dt
          """.stripMargin
-      )
-      checkAnswer(s"select id, name, price, dt from $tableName2")(
-        Seq(1, "a1", 10, "2021-04-01")
-      )
+        )
+        checkAnswer(s"select id, name, price, dt from $tableName2")(
+          Seq(1, "a1", 10, "2021-04-01")
+        )
 
-      // Create Partitioned table with timestamp data type
-      val tableName3 = generateTableName
-      // CTAS failed with null primaryKey
-      assertThrows[Exception] {
+        // Create Partitioned table with timestamp data type
+        val tableName3 = generateTableName
+        // CTAS failed with null primaryKey
+        assertThrows[Exception] {
+          spark.sql(
+            s"""
+               | create table $tableName3 using hudi
+               | partitioned by (dt)
+               | tblproperties(
+               |    primaryKey = 'id',
+               |    type = '$tableType'
+               | )
+               | location '${tmp.getCanonicalPath}/$tableName3'
+               | AS
+               | select null as id, 'a1' as name, 10 as price, '2021-05-07' as dt
+               |
+             """.stripMargin
+          )
+        }
+        // Create table with timestamp type partition
         spark.sql(
           s"""
              | create table $tableName3 using hudi
              | partitioned by (dt)
-             | tblproperties(primaryKey = 'id')
+             | tblproperties(
+             |    primaryKey = 'id',
+             |    type = '$tableType'
+             | )
              | location '${tmp.getCanonicalPath}/$tableName3'
              | AS
-             | select null as id, 'a1' as name, 10 as price, '2021-05-07' as dt
-             |
-             """.stripMargin
-        )
-      }
-      // Create table with timestamp type partition
-      spark.sql(
-        s"""
-           | create table $tableName3 using hudi
-           | partitioned by (dt)
-           | tblproperties(primaryKey = 'id')
-           | location '${tmp.getCanonicalPath}/$tableName3'
-           | AS
-           | select cast('2021-05-06 00:00:00' as timestamp) as dt, 1 as id, 'a1' as name, 10 as
-           | price
+             | select cast('2021-05-06 00:00:00' as timestamp) as dt, 1 as id, 'a1' as name, 10 as
+             | price
          """.stripMargin
-      )
-      checkAnswer(s"select id, name, price, cast(dt as string) from $tableName3")(
-        Seq(1, "a1", 10, "2021-05-06 00:00:00")
-      )
-      // Create table with date type partition
-      val tableName4 = generateTableName
-      spark.sql(
-        s"""
-           | create table $tableName4 using hudi
-           | partitioned by (dt)
-           | tblproperties(primaryKey = 'id')
-           | location '${tmp.getCanonicalPath}/$tableName4'
-           | AS
-           | select cast('2021-05-06' as date) as dt, 1 as id, 'a1' as name, 10 as
-           | price
+        )
+        checkAnswer(s"select id, name, price, cast(dt as string) from $tableName3")(
+          Seq(1, "a1", 10, "2021-05-06 00:00:00")
+        )
+        // Create table with date type partition
+        val tableName4 = generateTableName
+        spark.sql(
+          s"""
+             | create table $tableName4 using hudi
+             | partitioned by (dt)
+             | tblproperties(
+             |    primaryKey = 'id',
+             |    type = '$tableType'
+             | )
+             | location '${tmp.getCanonicalPath}/$tableName4'
+             | AS
+             | select cast('2021-05-06' as date) as dt, 1 as id, 'a1' as name, 10 as
+             | price
          """.stripMargin
-      )
-      checkAnswer(s"select id, name, price, cast(dt as string) from $tableName4")(
-        Seq(1, "a1", 10, "2021-05-06")
-      )
+        )
+        checkAnswer(s"select id, name, price, cast(dt as string) from $tableName4")(
+          Seq(1, "a1", 10, "2021-05-06")
+        )
+      }
     }
   }