When an exception occurs the Virtuoso server has the ability to provide information about the procedure call stack. It appends the call stack information to the error message text. There are also line numbers besides each level of the call stack which are a Virtuoso/PL procedure. The line numbers mark the beginning of the innermost compound statement.

The call stack reporting mode is controlled by the "CallstackOnException" option in the Parameters section of the Virtuoso INI file .

This parameter takes the following values:

Call stack reporting can be a security hole because it can demonstrate internal logic of the system to the end user; this is especially important for dynamic web pages. Mode 2 is especially insecure because it may print values of function arguments that may contain confidential information.

Some client applications are unable to handle long error messages properly. Client-side APIs for ODBC and similar protocols assume that client should allocate a buffer for error message string and then ask the API to save the message string to the specified buffer of the specified size. Not all client applications work properly if a message does not fit in the buffer. If an client application you use reports an empty string instead of error message or displays a message like 'Error message is too long' then you may wish to decrease the value of the "CallstackOnException" option to keep messages shorter.