GitLab pipeline - postgres connection termined unexpectedly - postgresql

Question

I am having a little trouble with postgres in docker .. I am running this pipeline in gitlab ... and everything starts fine.. I start a postgres:14-alpine docker image and run unit tests of the application ... and when it's about to start (create the test database) ...
I tried increasing the timeouts
pool: {
max: 50,
min: 5,
idle: 600000, // 10min
acquire: 600000,
createTimeoutMillis: 600000,
acquireTimeoutMillis: 600000,
idleTimeoutMillis: 600000,
reapIntervalMillis: 600000,
createRetryIntervalMillis: 600000
}
but it keeps ending up with this "Connection terminated unexpectedly"
Creating database db_unittests, owner will be postgres.
Executing (default): CREATE DATABASE db_unittests WITH OWNER = postgres;
/builds/project/node_modules/sequelize/lib/dialects/postgres/query.js:386
return new sequelizeErrors.DatabaseError(err);
^
DatabaseError [SequelizeDatabaseError]: Connection terminated unexpectedly
at Query.formatError (/builds/project/node_modules/sequelize/lib/dialects/postgres/query.js:386:16)
at Query.run (/builds/project/node_modules/sequelize/lib/dialects/postgres/query.js:87:18)
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
at async /builds/project/node_modules/sequelize/lib/sequelize.js:619:16
at async run (/builds/project/tests/scripts/database-recreate.js:50:3) {
parent: Error: Connection terminated unexpectedly
at Connection.<anonymous> (/builds/project/node_modules/pg/lib/client.js:132:73)
at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:627:28)
at Connection.emit (node:events:513:28)
at Socket.<anonymous> (/builds/project/node_modules/pg/lib/connection.js:107:12)
at Socket.emit (node:events:525:35)
at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1358:12)
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21) {
sql: 'CREATE DATABASE db_unittests WITH OWNER = postgres;',
parameters: undefined
},
original: Error: Connection terminated unexpectedly
at Connection.<anonymous> (/builds/project/node_modules/pg/lib/client.js:132:73)
at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:627:28)
at Connection.emit (node:events:513:28)
at Socket.<anonymous> (/builds/project/node_modules/pg/lib/connection.js:107:12)
at Socket.emit (node:events:525:35)
at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1358:12)
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21) {
sql: 'CREATE DATABASE db_unittests WITH OWNER = postgres;',
parameters: undefined
},
sql: 'CREATE DATABASE db_unittests WITH OWNER = postgres;',
parameters: undefined
}
Locally, it all works fine .. only in the pipeline - it acting up :disappointed:
Any idea why is that so? Thanks a lot