diff --git a/libs/utils/src/postgres_backend.rs b/libs/utils/src/postgres_backend.rs
index fab3c388b1..857df0ec84 100644
--- a/libs/utils/src/postgres_backend.rs
+++ b/libs/utils/src/postgres_backend.rs
@@ -433,7 +433,12 @@ impl PostgresBackend {
                     // full cause of the error, not just the top-level context + its trace.
                     // We don't want to send that in the ErrorResponse though,
                     // because it's not relevant to the compute node logs.
-                    error!("query handler for '{}' failed: {:?}", query_string, e);
+                    if query_string.starts_with("callmemaybe") {
+                        // FIXME avoid printing a backtrace for tenant x not found errors until this is properly fixed
+                        error!("query handler for '{}' failed: {}", query_string, e);
+                    } else {
+                        error!("query handler for '{}' failed: {:?}", query_string, e);
+                    }
                     self.write_message_noflush(&BeMessage::ErrorResponse(&e.to_string()))?;
                     // TODO: untangle convoluted control flow
                     if e.to_string().contains("failed to run") {