diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Cache/DatabaseBackend.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Cache/DatabaseBackend.php
index 05bcde0..53d5360 100644
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Cache/DatabaseBackend.php
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Cache/DatabaseBackend.php
@@ -401,19 +401,16 @@ protected function checksumTags(array $tags) {
       $query = 'SELECT tag, invalidations, deletions FROM {cachetags} WHERE tag IN (:tags)';
       $args = array(':tags' => $query_tags);
       try {
-        $result = $this->connection->query($query, $args);
+        $db_tags = $this->connection->query($query, $args)->fetchAllAssoc('tag', \PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
       }
       catch (\Exception $e) {
-        // If there was an exception, try to create the table.
-        if ($this->connection->schema()->ensureTableExists('cachetags', new CachetagSchema())) {
-          $result = $this->connection->query($query, $args);
-        }
-        else {
-          // Some other failure that we can not recover from.
+        // If there was an exception and the table exists then the cache
+        // might be stale and the exception needs to be propagated.
+        if ($this->connection->schema()->tableExists('cachetags')) {
           throw $e;
         }
+        $db_tags = array();
       }
-      $db_tags = $result->fetchAllAssoc('tag', \PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
       $tag_cache += $db_tags;
 
       // Fill static cache with empty objects for tags not found in the database.