Never noticed this: too few placeholders not flagged?

[Jeff Boes]

I'm using DBI V1.21, DBD::Pg V1.12.  Given this setup:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use DBI;
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Pg:dbname=...')
  or die $DBI::errstr;
my $sth = $dbh->prepare(q!SELECT * FROM emp WHERE empno=?!)
  or die $DBI::errstr;

(that is, a statement handle with a single placeholder)

This call works as expected:

$sth->execute(1) or die $DBI::errstr;

This one produces an error message, as expected:

$sth->execute(1,2) or die $DBI::errstr;

execute called with 2 bind variables, 1 needed

But this one doesn't complain at all!

$sth->execute() or die $DBI::errstr;

Shouldn't execute notice that it has too few parameters in this case? 
It notices when you have two placeholders and one value, but if you
supply no parameters to execute, it doesn't complain.

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