UTL_CALL_STACK.BACKTRACE_UNIT Raises ORA-64610 When Called From Anonymou Block (Doc ID 2419817.1)

Last updated on MARCH 04, 2022

Applies to:

Symptoms

Executing an anonymous block having a call to utl_call_stack.backtrace_unit() in the exception handling section fails with ORA-64610: bad depth indicator whenever the anonymous block raises an exception.

The same behavior is observed when a procedure(raising some exception) is called dynamically from another procedure and the exception handling section of the caller makes a call to utl_call_stack.backtrace_unit().

The following PL/SQL code demonstrates the issue:

Cause

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