php的mysqli_query,PHP: mysqli::query - Manual

Recently I had puzzling problem when performing DML queries, update in particular, each time a update query is called and then there are some more queries to follow this error will show on the page and go in the error_log:

"Fatal error:  Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0"

The strange thing is that all queries go through just fine so it didn't make much sense:

$update = mysqli_query($connection, $query_string);

if(!$update){

echo 'Houston we have a problem '.mysqli_error($connection);

exit;

}

In the above example "$update" is "true", mysqli_error() is empty and of course the update operation goes through, however the nasty super cryptic error appears on the page.

What makes even less sense to me is how I fixed it - just called "mysqli_free_result" after the update query and the problem was gone, however because mysqli_free_result is not supposed to be called after DML queries (to free what, a boolean? lol) it needs to be wrapped in a try catch block:

try{

mysqli_free_result($update);

}catch (Exception $e){

//do nothing

}

So, I don't know why but it seems that when DML queries are responsible for:

"Fatal error:  Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0"

calling "mysqli_free_result" after the query seems to be fixing the issue