diff --git a/src/backend/commands/copy.c b/src/backend/commands/copy.c
index ef9ddd4adcd80648a25614acc4d7d97b667e2e1a..89701467c49586eb32c3940cf557a1cd0879a39d 100644
--- a/src/backend/commands/copy.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/copy.c
@@ -1232,13 +1232,13 @@ ProcessCopyOptions(CopyState cstate,
 {
 	bool		format_specified = false;
 	ListCell   *option;
-	bool		delim_off = false;
 
 	/* Support external use for option sanity checking */
 	if (cstate == NULL)
 		cstate = (CopyStateData *) palloc0(sizeof(CopyStateData));
 
 	cstate->escape_off = false;
+	cstate->delim_off = false;
 	cstate->file_encoding = -1;
 
 	/* Extract options from the statement node tree */
@@ -1291,7 +1291,7 @@ ProcessCopyOptions(CopyState cstate,
 			cstate->delim = defGetString(defel);
 
 			if (cstate->delim && pg_strcasecmp(cstate->delim, "off") == 0)
-				delim_off = true;
+				cstate->delim_off = true;
 		}
 		else if (strcmp(defel->defname, "null") == 0)
 		{
@@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ ProcessCopyOptions(CopyState cstate,
 	 * future-proofing.  Likewise we disallow all digits though only octal
 	 * digits are actually dangerous.
 	 */
-	if (!cstate->csv_mode && !delim_off &&
+	if (!cstate->csv_mode && !cstate->delim_off &&
 		strchr("\\.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789",
 			   cstate->delim[0]) != NULL)
 		ereport(ERROR,
@@ -1534,7 +1534,7 @@ ProcessCopyOptions(CopyState cstate,
 				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
 				 errmsg("COPY quote must be a single one-byte character")));
 
-	if (cstate->csv_mode && cstate->delim[0] == cstate->quote[0] && !delim_off)
+	if (cstate->csv_mode && cstate->delim[0] == cstate->quote[0] && !cstate->delim_off)
 		ereport(ERROR,
 				(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
 				 errmsg("COPY delimiter and quote must be different")));
@@ -1609,7 +1609,7 @@ ProcessCopyOptions(CopyState cstate,
 	if (pg_database_encoding_max_length() == 1)
 	{
 		/* single byte encoding such as ascii, latinx and other */
-		if (strlen(cstate->delim) != 1 && !delim_off)
+		if (strlen(cstate->delim) != 1 && !cstate->delim_off)
 			ereport(ERROR,
 					(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
 					 errmsg("COPY delimiter must be a single one-byte character, or \'off\'")));
@@ -1617,7 +1617,7 @@ ProcessCopyOptions(CopyState cstate,
 	else
 	{
 		/* multi byte encoding such as utf8 */
-		if ((strlen(cstate->delim) != 1 || IS_HIGHBIT_SET(cstate->delim[0])) && !delim_off )
+		if ((strlen(cstate->delim) != 1 || IS_HIGHBIT_SET(cstate->delim[0])) && !cstate->delim_off )
 			ereport(ERROR,
 					(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
 					 errmsg("COPY delimiter must be a single one-byte character, or \'off\'")));
@@ -1635,12 +1635,12 @@ ProcessCopyOptions(CopyState cstate,
 				(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
 				 errmsg("COPY delimiter cannot be backslash")));
 
-	if (strchr(cstate->null_print, cstate->delim[0]) != NULL && !delim_off)
+	if (strchr(cstate->null_print, cstate->delim[0]) != NULL && !cstate->delim_off)
 		ereport(ERROR,
 				(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
 				 errmsg("COPY delimiter must not appear in the NULL specification")));
 
-	if (delim_off)
+	if (cstate->delim_off)
 	{
 
 		/*
@@ -6509,6 +6509,7 @@ CopyReadAttributesText(CopyState cstate, int stop_processing_at_field)
 {
 	char		delimc = cstate->delim[0];
 	char		escapec = cstate->escape_off ? delimc : cstate->escape[0];
+	bool		delim_off = cstate->delim_off;
 	int			fieldno;
 	char	   *output_ptr;
 	char	   *cur_ptr;
@@ -6594,7 +6595,7 @@ CopyReadAttributesText(CopyState cstate, int stop_processing_at_field)
 			if (cur_ptr >= line_end_ptr)
 				break;
 			c = *cur_ptr++;
-			if (c == delimc)
+			if (c == delimc && !delim_off)
 			{
 				found_delim = true;
 				break;
@@ -6755,6 +6756,7 @@ static int
 CopyReadAttributesCSV(CopyState cstate, int stop_processing_at_field)
 {
 	char		delimc = cstate->delim[0];
+	bool		delim_off = cstate->delim_off;
 	char		quotec = cstate->quote[0];
 	char		escapec = cstate->escape[0];
 	int			fieldno;
@@ -6842,7 +6844,7 @@ CopyReadAttributesCSV(CopyState cstate, int stop_processing_at_field)
 					goto endfield;
 				c = *cur_ptr++;
 				/* unquoted field delimiter */
-				if (c == delimc)
+				if (c == delimc && !delim_off)
 				{
 					found_delim = true;
 					goto endfield;
diff --git a/src/include/commands/copy.h b/src/include/commands/copy.h
index b9389eebe073222e2f7d8fe70063515d23a065c0..d54806109c5c99a03d6da83c481b2c4e64ae8fa9 100644
--- a/src/include/commands/copy.h
+++ b/src/include/commands/copy.h
@@ -256,6 +256,8 @@ typedef struct CopyStateData
 	/* Information on the connections to QEs. */
 	CdbCopy    *cdbCopy;
 
+	bool		delim_off;		/* delimiter is set to OFF? */
+
 /* end Greenplum Database specific variables */
 } CopyStateData;
 
diff --git a/src/test/isolation2/input/external_table.source b/src/test/isolation2/input/external_table.source
index a0caf654a64b8e2d0e7c020db18aee7b7db70c53..f558073252f507d96b62e985f154d19095d8a9cf 100644
--- a/src/test/isolation2/input/external_table.source
+++ b/src/test/isolation2/input/external_table.source
@@ -124,3 +124,24 @@ CREATE EXTERNAL WEB TABLE ext_delim_off ( junk text) execute 'echo hi' on master
 
 -- Query the ext_delim_off table
 SELECT * FROM ext_delim_off;
+
+-- start_ignore
+DROP EXTERNAL TABLE IF EXISTS ext_delimiter_off_text;
+-- end_ignore
+
+-- Create external table(format text) with delimiter off, and a row with 'O'
+CREATE EXTERNAL WEB TABLE ext_delimiter_off_text
+(a text) EXECUTE E'echo O' ON MASTER FORMAT 'text' (delimiter 'OFF') ENCODING 'UTF8';
+
+SELECT * FROM ext_delimiter_off_text;
+
+-- start_ignore
+DROP EXTERNAL TABLE IF EXISTS ext_delimiter_off_csv;
+-- end_ignore
+
+-- Create external table(format csv) with delimiter off, and a row with 'O'
+CREATE EXTERNAL WEB TABLE ext_delimiter_off_csv
+(a text) EXECUTE E'echo O' ON MASTER FORMAT 'csv' (delimiter 'OFF') ENCODING 'UTF8';
+
+SELECT * FROM ext_delimiter_off_csv;
+
diff --git a/src/test/isolation2/output/external_table.source b/src/test/isolation2/output/external_table.source
index 78fde5de58f115260e49b72b3ee1e04240c2c09f..ea399b2ce935e29794be1e21a467dce2595c4417 100644
--- a/src/test/isolation2/output/external_table.source
+++ b/src/test/isolation2/output/external_table.source
@@ -204,3 +204,34 @@ SELECT * FROM ext_delim_off;
 ------
  hi   
 (1 row)
+
+GP_IGNORE:-- start_ignore
+GP_IGNORE:DROP EXTERNAL TABLE IF EXISTS ext_delimiter_off_text;
+GP_IGNORE:DROP
+GP_IGNORE:-- end_ignore
+
+-- Create external table(format text) with delimiter off, and a row with 'O'
+CREATE EXTERNAL WEB TABLE ext_delimiter_off_text (a text) EXECUTE E'echo O' ON MASTER FORMAT 'text' (delimiter 'OFF') ENCODING 'UTF8';
+CREATE
+
+SELECT * FROM ext_delimiter_off_text;
+ a 
+---
+ O 
+(1 row)
+
+GP_IGNORE:-- start_ignore
+GP_IGNORE:DROP EXTERNAL TABLE IF EXISTS ext_delimiter_off_csv;
+GP_IGNORE:DROP
+GP_IGNORE:-- end_ignore
+
+-- Create external table(format csv) with delimiter off, and a row with 'O'
+CREATE EXTERNAL WEB TABLE ext_delimiter_off_csv (a text) EXECUTE E'echo O' ON MASTER FORMAT 'csv' (delimiter 'OFF') ENCODING 'UTF8';
+CREATE
+
+SELECT * FROM ext_delimiter_off_csv;
+ a 
+---
+ O 
+(1 row)
+