Is there a benefit to JUST a “throw” in a catch?

Question

Been having a \"heated debate\" with a colleague about his practice of wrapping most of his functions in a try/catch but the catch has JUST a \"throw\" in it e.g.

Answer 1

This can also be useful if you need to inspect something about the exception, and do something for one circumstance or throw it for other circumstances. For instance, if you need to inspect the error number in a SQLException. You can perform a certain action if the error number is one you're prepared to handle. For others you can simply "throw" it so the stack trace is preserved, as mentioned above.