Need for try catch within a constructor

Question

The link http://gotw.ca/gotw/066.htm states that

Moral #1: Constructor function-try-block handlers have only one purpose -- to translate an exception. (And maybe to do logging or some other side effects.) They are not useful for any other purpose.

While http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/exceptions.html#faq-17.8

If a constructor throws an exception, the object's destructor is not run. If your object has already done something that needs to be undone (such as allocating some memory, opening a file, or locking a semaphore), this "stuff that needs to be undone" must be remembered by a data member inside the object.

Are these 2 statements not contradictory? The first one kind of implies that the try catch within a constructor is pretty much useless while the second says that it is needed to free resources. What am i missing here?

Answer 1

Moral #1 talks about function-try-block & the second statement talks about a normal try catch block, both are distinctly different.

You need to understand the different between the two to understand how the two sentences make sense. This answer here explains that.