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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def execute_catch(c, sql, vars=None):
 """Run a query, but ignore any errors. For error recovery paths where the error handler should not raise another."""

    try:
        c.execute(sql, vars)
    except Exception as err:
        cmd = sql.split(' ', 1)[0]
        log.error("Error executing %s: %s", cmd, err)