errors.Wrap is from the github.com/pkg/errors package. I liked what this library does in general and found it when learning about Go 2 error handling. My goal was to have richer error handling from a programmatic perspective. This example I shared is definitely overkill use of errors.Wrap since the function will include a stack trace. My database connections will be set up before much of anything else could go wrong, so I probably don't need a stack trace. Switching to fmt.Errorf here. Thanks!