Yum cannot handle situation where the yum history is removed manually

Issue

When the command yum history is called by an unprivileged user after the yum history removal, the following message occurs:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 285, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 105, in main
    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 310, in getOptionsConfig
    self.parseCommands() # before we return check over the base command + args
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 350, in parseCommands
    self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCheck(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 1460, in doCheck
    elif not os.access(base.history._db_file, os.R_OK):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 924, in <lambda>
    history = property(fget=lambda self: self._getHistory(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 889, in _getHistory
    releasever=self.conf.yumvar['releasever'])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 700, in __init__
    self._create_db_file()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 1645, in _create_db_file
    cur.execute(op)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'execute'