diff --git a/datafusion/common/src/config.rs b/datafusion/common/src/config.rs
index 173b69dcbdec5..6e9d18af02f08 100644
--- a/datafusion/common/src/config.rs
+++ b/datafusion/common/src/config.rs
@@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ config_namespace! {
         /// a user-supplied schema are not promoted because the Parquet footer is
         /// not read at DDL time, so dictionary pages cannot be detected per column.
         /// See <https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues/24112>
-        pub enable_rle_to_dictionary: bool, default = false
+        pub enable_rle_to_dictionary: bool, default = true
 
         /// (reading) Which byte range of a split file reads each row group.
         /// `start_offset` picks the range containing the row group's start.