One pattern I happily use is to capture the error into a named return error, using a multi-error if the named error is already non-nil. func fetchFoo(ctx c

One pattern I happily use is to capture the error into a named return error, using a multi-error if the named error is already non-nil. func fetchFoo(ctx context.Context) (_ Foo, mErr error) { conn := pool.Acquire(ctx) defer errs.Capture(&mErr, conn.Close, "close conn for fetch foo") } I have a couple of useful variants: defer errs.CaptureLog(logger, conn.Close, "close conn") defer errs.CaptureT(t, conn.Close, "close conn")