DBMS_UTILITY.FORMAT_CALL_STACK Change in 12.2 and later

Quick note. During my 11.2.0.4 to 19c upgrade that I have been writing about we found a difference in behavior of DBMS_UTILITY.FORMAT_CALL_STACK. I tested it on several versions, and it switched in 12.2. Now it puts the procedure name within the package in the stack.

Old output:

----- PL/SQL CALL STACK -----
  OBJECT      LINE  OBJECT
  HANDLE    NUMBER  NAME
0X15BFA6930         9  PACKAGE BODY MYUSER.MYPKG
0X10C988058         1  ANONYMOUS BLOCK

New output:

----- PL/SQL CALL STACK -----
  OBJECT      LINE  OBJECT
  HANDLE    NUMBER  NAME
0XA796DF28         9  PACKAGE BODY MYUSER.MYPKG.MYPROC
0X7ADFEEB8         1  ANONYMOUS BLOCK

Test code:

select * from v$version;

CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE MYPKG
AS

PROCEDURE MYPROC;

END MYPKG;
/
SHOW ERRORS

CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY MYPKG
AS

PROCEDURE MYPROC
IS

BEGIN

DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(UPPER(dbms_utility.format_call_stack));

END MYPROC;

END MYPKG;
/
SHOW ERRORS;

execute mypkg.myproc;
show errors;

Might be useful to someone else. We had some code that depended on the package name being the last thing on its line, but the new version includes the name of the procedure after the package name.

Bobby