Problem
We tell PDO to wrap each issue into exception. In some cases it generates a few warnings and only then throws exception.
Why
It's because of PDO could use mysqlnd driver, which not respects any of PDO's "convert-issues-to-extensions" policy.
Just look at sources of mysqlnd driver.
We clearly see there direct calls to php_error_docref
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And one of examples, shown at previous question explained by these lines: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/PHP-5.5.31/ext/mysqlnd/mysqlnd_wireprotocol.c#L35:L61