Exceptions now successfully being caught when db is missing

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Config/DrupalVerifiedStorageSQL.php

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 namespace Drupal\Core\Config;
 
 use Drupal\Core\Config\DrupalConfigVerifiedStorage;
+use Exception;
 
 /**
  * Represents an SQL-based configuration storage object.
@@ -18,7 +19,8 @@ public function read() {
     // catch the exception and just return an empty array so the caller can
     // handle it if need be.
     try {
-      return db_query('SELECT data FROM {config} WHERE name = :name', array(':name' => $this->name))->fetchField();
+      $result = db_query('SELECT data FROM {config} WHERE name = :name', array(':name' => $this->name))->fetchField();
+      return $result;
     } catch (Exception $e) {
       return array();
     }