kosiew commented on code in PR #14769:
URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/14769#discussion_r1967089979


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datafusion/core/src/dataframe/mod.rs:
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@@ -1926,6 +1930,71 @@ impl DataFrame {
             plan,
         })
     }
+
+    /// Fill null values in specified columns with a given value
+    /// If no columns are specified, applies to all columns
+    /// Only fills if the value can be cast to the column's type
+    ///
+    /// # Arguments
+    /// * `value` - Value to fill nulls with
+    /// * `columns` - Optional list of column names to fill. If None, fills 
all columns
+    pub fn fill_null(
+        &self,
+        value: ScalarValue,
+        columns: Option<Vec<String>>,
+    ) -> Result<DataFrame> {
+        let cols = match columns {
+            Some(names) => self.find_columns(&names)?,
+            None => self

Review Comment:
   I was following the Pandas convention, where no limits (columns) means 
fill_null for all columns
   https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.fillna.html
   
   <img width="749" alt="image" 
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c4eab1eb-f1d2-4133-90c3-0a2c57b0349d";
 />
   
   
   I could amend to no op as well if this is the preferred convention



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