The developer experience in case of a missing base table is pretty ugly. (See below.) If you're trying to access the site via Drush or don't have error display enabled, all you get is the "Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object" bit, which is next to worthless. There are certain common situations--e.g., when Drupal's not installed at all--that seem like they should be detected and handled more elegantly.
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Drupal\Core\Database\DatabaseExceptionWrapper: SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'drupal.sessions' doesn't exist: SELECT session FROM {sessions} WHERE sid = :sid LIMIT 0, 1; Array ( [:sid] => PVgbX4ihVYdcR0Qy7AUiDsmRG7sr9mTcmHVnCM9Cubw ) in Drupal\Core\Session\SessionHandler->read() (line 66 of core/lib/Drupal/Core/Session/SessionHandler.php).
Drupal\Core\Session\SessionHandler->read('tU1JRHeOON-HVquwCBSfaLcPCLz2h8SjufQB_qweKJk')
Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Session\Storage\Handler\WriteCheckSessionHandler->read('tU1JRHeOON-HVquwCBSfaLcPCLz2h8SjufQB_qweKJk')
Drupal\Core\Session\WriteSafeSessionHandler->read('tU1JRHeOON-HVquwCBSfaLcPCLz2h8SjufQB_qweKJk')
Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Session\Storage\Proxy\SessionHandlerProxy->read('tU1JRHeOON-HVquwCBSfaLcPCLz2h8SjufQB_qweKJk')
session_start()
Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Session\Storage\NativeSessionStorage->start()
Drupal\Core\Session\SessionManager->startNow()
Drupal\Core\Session\SessionManager->start()
Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Session\Session->start()
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\Session->handle(Object, 1, 1)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\KernelPreHandle->handle(Object, 1, 1)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\ReverseProxyMiddleware->handle(Object, 1, 1)
Drupal\Core\StackMiddleware\NegotiationMiddleware->handle(Object, 1, 1)
Stack\StackedHttpKernel->handle(Object, 1, 1)
Drupal\Core\DrupalKernel->handle(Object)
Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in /var/www/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Session/SessionHandler.php on line 81
Identify the common cases (e.g., there are no tables in the database at all--Drupal's plain not installed!) and handle them specially.
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Testing for this text "Base table or view not found' was removed in #333095: Demeow sqlite patch → , which was a commit in Drupal 7. Because of that and the lack of activity here for nearly 10 years, I am closing this issue.