diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c8be3e154ddd8..c08e776947cca 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -14299,9 +14299,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "thiserror-ext"
-version = "0.1.2"
+version = "0.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a7c19760dc47062bca5c1b3699b032111c93802d51ac47660db11b08afc6bad2"
+checksum = "ef4323942237f7cc071061f2c5f0db919e6053c2cdf58c6bc974883073429737"
 dependencies = [
  "thiserror 1.0.63",
  "thiserror-ext-derive",
@@ -14309,9 +14309,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "thiserror-ext-derive"
-version = "0.1.2"
+version = "0.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "667c8c48f68021098038115926c64d9950b0582062ae63f7d30638b1168daf03"
+checksum = "96541747c50e6c73e094737938f4f5dfaf50c48a31adff4197a3e2a481371674"
 dependencies = [
  "either",
  "proc-macro2",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c260bf8c52932..6f9b85aa5c1ae 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ parquet = { version = "53.2", features = ["async"] }
 mysql_async = { version = "0.34", default-features = false, features = [
     "default",
 ] }
-thiserror-ext = "0.1.2"
+thiserror-ext = { version = "0.2.1", features = ["backtrace"] }
 tikv-jemalloc-ctl = { git = "https://github.com/risingwavelabs/jemallocator.git", rev = "64a2d9" }
 tikv-jemallocator = { git = "https://github.com/risingwavelabs/jemallocator.git", features = [
     "profiling",
diff --git a/src/frontend/src/expr/function_call.rs b/src/frontend/src/expr/function_call.rs
index 101bdea17c004..a8a5598b7349e 100644
--- a/src/frontend/src/expr/function_call.rs
+++ b/src/frontend/src/expr/function_call.rs
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@
 
 use itertools::Itertools;
 use risingwave_common::catalog::Schema;
-use risingwave_common::error::{bail, def_anyhow_newtype};
 use risingwave_common::types::{DataType, ScalarImpl};
 use risingwave_common::util::iter_util::ZipEqFast;
-use thiserror_ext::AsReport;
+use thiserror::Error;
+use thiserror_ext::{AsReport, Box, Macro};
 
 use super::type_inference::cast;
 use super::{infer_some_all, infer_type, CastContext, Expr, ExprImpl, Literal};
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ impl FunctionCall {
     ) -> Result<(), CastError> {
         // Can only cast to a struct type.
         let DataType::Struct(t) = &target_type else {
-            bail!(
+            bail_cast_error!(
                 "cannot cast type \"{}\" to \"{}\"",
                 func.return_type(), // typically "record"
                 target_type,
@@ -191,8 +191,8 @@ impl FunctionCall {
                 func.return_type = target_type;
                 Ok(())
             }
-            std::cmp::Ordering::Less => bail!("input has too few columns"),
-            std::cmp::Ordering::Greater => bail!("input has too many columns"),
+            std::cmp::Ordering::Less => bail_cast_error!("input has too few columns"),
+            std::cmp::Ordering::Greater => bail_cast_error!("input has too many columns"),
         }
     }
 
@@ -423,9 +423,14 @@ pub fn is_row_function(expr: &ExprImpl) -> bool {
     false
 }
 
-def_anyhow_newtype! {
-    pub CastError,
+#[derive(Error, Debug, Box, Macro)]
+#[thiserror_ext(newtype(name = CastError), macro(path = "crate::expr::function_call"))]
+#[error("{message}")]
+pub struct CastErrorInner {
+    pub source: Option<CastError>,
+    pub message: Box<str>,
 }
+
 pub type CastResult<T = ()> = Result<T, CastError>;
 
 impl From<CastError> for ErrorCode {
diff --git a/src/frontend/src/expr/mod.rs b/src/frontend/src/expr/mod.rs
index bc36679b3547f..cf1d0cc21879d 100644
--- a/src/frontend/src/expr/mod.rs
+++ b/src/frontend/src/expr/mod.rs
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 use enum_as_inner::EnumAsInner;
 use fixedbitset::FixedBitSet;
+use function_call::bail_cast_error;
 use futures::FutureExt;
 use paste::paste;
 use risingwave_common::array::ListValue;
@@ -300,7 +301,7 @@ impl ExprImpl {
             ))),
             DataType::Int32 => Ok(self),
             dt if dt.is_int() => Ok(self.cast_explicit(DataType::Int32)?),
-            _ => bail!("unsupported input type"),
+            _ => bail_cast_error!("unsupported input type"),
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/frontend/src/expr/type_inference/cast.rs b/src/frontend/src/expr/type_inference/cast.rs
index 66ad6969ae316..806d13f9fb301 100644
--- a/src/frontend/src/expr/type_inference/cast.rs
+++ b/src/frontend/src/expr/type_inference/cast.rs
@@ -15,15 +15,13 @@
 use std::collections::BTreeMap;
 use std::sync::LazyLock;
 
-use anyhow::Context;
 use itertools::Itertools as _;
 use parse_display::Display;
-use risingwave_common::error::bail;
 use risingwave_common::types::{DataType, DataTypeName};
 use risingwave_common::util::iter_util::ZipEqFast;
 
 use crate::error::ErrorCode;
-use crate::expr::function_call::{CastError, CastResult};
+use crate::expr::function_call::{bail_cast_error, cast_error, CastError, CastResult};
 use crate::expr::{Expr as _, ExprImpl, InputRef, Literal};
 
 /// Find the least restrictive type. Used by `VALUES`, `CASE`, `UNION`, etc.
@@ -121,7 +119,7 @@ fn canmeh(ok: bool) -> CastResult {
     if ok {
         Ok(())
     } else {
-        bail!("")
+        bail_cast_error!()
     }
 }
 fn cannot() -> CastResult {
@@ -144,13 +142,15 @@ pub fn cast(source: &DataType, target: &DataType, allows: CastContext) -> Result
     } else {
         canmeh(cast_ok_base(source, target, allows))
     }
-    .with_context(|| {
-        format!(
+    .map_err(|inner| {
+        cast_error!(
+            source = inner,
             "cannot cast type \"{}\" to \"{}\" in {:?} context",
-            source, target, allows
+            source,
+            target,
+            allows
         )
     })
-    .map_err(Into::into)
 }
 
 /// Checks whether casting from `source` to `target` is ok in `allows` context.
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ fn cast_ok_struct(source: &DataType, target: &DataType, allows: CastContext) ->
                 unreachable!("record type should be already processed at this point");
             }
             if lty.len() != rty.len() {
-                bail!("cannot cast structs of different lengths");
+                bail_cast_error!("cannot cast structs of different lengths");
             }
             // ... and all fields are castable
             lty.types()