diff --git a/crates/iceberg/src/arrow/reader.rs b/crates/iceberg/src/arrow/reader.rs
index 347db6cd7..f686c1045 100644
--- a/crates/iceberg/src/arrow/reader.rs
+++ b/crates/iceberg/src/arrow/reader.rs
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ use crate::expr::{BoundPredicate, BoundReference};
 use crate::io::{FileIO, FileMetadata, FileRead};
 use crate::runtime::spawn;
 use crate::scan::{ArrowRecordBatchStream, FileScanTask, FileScanTaskStream};
-use crate::spec::{Datum, Schema};
+use crate::spec::{DataContentType, Datum, Schema};
 use crate::utils::available_parallelism;
 use crate::{Error, ErrorKind};
 
@@ -210,12 +210,6 @@ impl ArrowReader {
         )?;
         record_batch_stream_builder = record_batch_stream_builder.with_projection(projection_mask);
 
-        // RecordBatchTransformer performs any required transformations on the RecordBatches
-        // that come back from the file, such as type promotion, default column insertion
-        // and column re-ordering
-        let mut record_batch_transformer =
-            RecordBatchTransformer::build(task.schema_ref(), task.project_field_ids());
-
         if let Some(batch_size) = batch_size {
             record_batch_stream_builder = record_batch_stream_builder.with_batch_size(batch_size);
         }
@@ -269,9 +263,22 @@ impl ArrowReader {
         // to the requester.
         let mut record_batch_stream = record_batch_stream_builder.build()?;
 
-        while let Some(batch) = record_batch_stream.try_next().await? {
-            tx.send(record_batch_transformer.process_record_batch(batch))
-                .await?
+        // The schema of the xxx file doesn't change, so we don't need to convert the schema.
+        if matches!(task.data_file_content, DataContentType::PositionDeletes) {
+            while let Some(batch) = record_batch_stream.try_next().await? {
+                tx.send(Ok(batch)).await?
+            }
+        } else {
+            // RecordBatchTransformer performs any required transformations on the RecordBatches
+            // that come back from the file, such as type promotion, default column insertion
+            // and column re-ordering.
+            let mut record_batch_transformer =
+                RecordBatchTransformer::build(task.schema_ref(), task.project_field_ids());
+
+            while let Some(batch) = record_batch_stream.try_next().await? {
+                tx.send(record_batch_transformer.process_record_batch(batch))
+                    .await?
+            }
         }
 
         Ok(())