My attempt to reproduce this has failed.

use strict;
use warnings;

use Test::More tests => 2;
use DBI;
use Data::Dumper;

my $dbh = DBI->connect ('dbi:SQLite:dbname=:memory:', '', '');

my $sth = $dbh->prepare ('SELECT 1 = 1;');
$sth->execute;
$sth->finish;
ok ! $sth->{Active}, 'Handle is inactive';
my $res = $sth->fetchall_arrayref ();

is $res, undef, 'Result is undef' or diag Dumper ($res);

diag "DBI $DBI::VERSION";

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$ perl inactive.t
1..2
ok 1 - Handle is inactive
not ok 2 - Result is undef
#   Failed test 'Result is undef'
#   at /tmp/inactive2.t line 16.
#          got: 'ARRAY(0x2c41050)'
#     expected: undef
# $VAR1 = [];
# DBI 1.643
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 2.

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On this apparently inactive handle it still returns an empty arrayref. Where am I going wrong?

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In reply to Re^2: Does fetchall_arrayref() ever return a NULL? by hippo
in thread Does fetchall_arrayref() ever return a NULL? by bartender1382

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