Description:
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The following code leads to a "Unknown Command" Error (because I tried to use PDO with a 5.0 libmysql to connect to a 3.23 mysqld), but for any reason this does not throw an Ecxeption, though I used:

   $dbh->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);

Why doesn't PDO throw an Exception here?





Reproduce code:
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<?php
try {
   $dbh = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=test', 'user', 'pass');
   $dbh->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
   $result = $dbh->query('SELECT * FROM test');
   var_dump($dbh->errorInfo());
}
catch(PDOException $e){
   die($e->getMessage());
}
?>

Expected result:
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should throw a PDOEception ("Unknown Command"), which is caused by PDO::query().

Actual result:
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Does not throw any exception, only $dbh->errorInfo() gives some info here. 

$dbh->query() return FALSE
$dbh->errorInfo() returns error "Unknown Command"
$dbh->getAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE) returns "2"
     which is == PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION


shouldn't PDO throw an Exception here? Seems to ignore the errormode set by $dbh->setAttribute(). Before calling $dbh->query() and after calling $dbh->setAttribute() $dbh->errorInfo() returns no error.

I started a thread on php.pecl.dev last week about a problem with using PDO_MYSQL linked against a 5.0 libmysql with a 3.23 mysqld. The reason for the error seems to be, that PDO_MYSQL uses "prepare" internally, which is not supported by mysqld <4.1:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=114319999400001&r=1&w=2