Since iterators must be released before committing or discarding a
transaction we have the pattern of both deferring a release plus doing
it manually. But we can't release twice because we track this with a
WaitGroup that will panic when there are more Done()s than Add()s. This
just adds a boolean to let an iterator keep track.
This matches the convention of the stdlib and avoids ambiguity: when
customErr{} and &customErr{} both implement error, client code needs to
check for both.
Memory use should remain the same, since storing a non-pointer type in
an interface value still copies the value to the heap.
