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Reported details: The reporter says OpenTelemetry records an exception both as ERROR status with a description and as an exception event carrying type, message and stack trace, and that ADK's trace_tool_call and node_tracing do the same. According to the report, the spans table has columns for ids, parent, name, start/end times, session_id, invocation_id and attributes_json only, and _row_to_readable_span rebuilds spans without status or events. The reported output was status read back: UNSET and events read back: []. The reporter says the table on main is identical, and that the problem occurs every time.\n\nReproduction as described: The report includes a short script that needs no key or network. It creates a SqliteSpanExporter on a temporary database, wraps it in a SimpleSpanProcessor, raises a ValueError inside start_as_current_span, and then calls get_all_spans_for_session. The expected result per the reporter is status ERROR with a description and an exception event.\n\nDiagnosis status: The cause described, missing columns and no restoration of status or events on read, is the reporter's own reading of the code and is not maintainer-confirmed. Practical implication if the report is accurate: exception details for failed runs would not be recoverable from the local SQLite trace store in this version, so errors would need to come from other logs or exporters.\n\nFix status: No pull request, fix commit or release appears in the supplied content. The reporter proposes adding status_code, status_description and events_json columns, using ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN for existing database files, writing them in export, and restoring them on read. That is an unreviewed proposal, not a confirmed fix.\n\nLimitations: This is a single external report; it was not reproduced by KFA. There is no maintainer response in the supplied material, and comment coverage may omit middle comments. 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