@rmulhol I think the issue has been that we have initialised a completely new connection per test, which we hadn't explicitly closed until you added your AfterEach things. Now, there is only one connection per suite and it should be fine :)

👍 definitely no problems here - mostly just noting since the pattern of:

var name type
BeforeEach(func() {
     name = type{}
})

is usually pretty bulletproof, so all things being equal I wouldn't abandon it without a good reason (which we definitely have here).

I think I've seen issues where:

var name = func()

can sometimes result in zero-valued vars (though I could be misremembering - thought I had seen that when the function depended on other vars/functions that may not have been evaluated in time to make a successful assignment 🤔).

Also could be that I'm confusing things in a var declaration with implicitly defined vars, e.g.

Describe("thing", func() {
     name := func()
     It("does something", func() {
          ...
     })
})

(with no var declaration)