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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:56:38 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Throwable Hierarchy Policy for Extensions
To: Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>
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From: tekiela246@gmail.com (Kamil Tekiela)

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 at 21:13, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote=
:
> >> [=E2=80=A6] just that it's the only time I've seen $code used in the w=
ild...
> >>
> >
> > PDO (for better or worse) also uses the `$code` for the error code
> > returned by the database. Unfortunately it also widens the (untyped)
> > $code from int to string|int, which causes some issues, since folks onl=
y
> > expect int, since Exception::__construct() types the `$code` parameter
> > as `int`.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Tim D=C3=BCsterhus
>
> In my experience, worse.  But that's another topic.


PDO is a bad example because the code is pretty much useless. You need
to get the actual code from `errorInfo[1]` if you want to know the
reason.