Docker Compose + TypeORM: No Connection - postgresql

Question

I know there are plenty of questions around this topic, but I can't make it work for my (fairly straightforward setup). What am I missing? I guess we can neglect pgadmin out of the equation, but I kept in there for full disclosure.
docker-compose.yml
version: '3.8'
services:
postgres:
image: postgres:14.2-alpine
environment:
POSTGRES_USER: ${POSTGRES_USER:-postgres}
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-postgres}
POSTGRES_DB: mydatabase
PGDATA: /data/mydatabase
volumes:
- pgstore:/var/lib/postgresql/data
ports:
- '5432:5432'
networks:
- postgres
restart: unless-stopped
pgadmin:
image: dpage/pgadmin4:6.5
environment:
PGADMIN_DEFAULT_EMAIL: ${PGADMIN_DEFAULT_EMAIL:-admin#admin.com}
PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD: ${PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD:-admin}
volumes:
- pgadmin:/root/.pgadmin
ports:
- '5050:80'
networks:
- postgres
depends_on:
- postgres
restart: unless-stopped
networks:
postgres:
driver: bridge
volumes:
pgstore:
pgadmin:
Starting it with docker-compose up yields:
Creating network "my-app_postgres" with driver "bridge"
Creating my-app_postgres_1 ... done
Creating my-app_pgadmin_1 ... done
Attaching to my-app_postgres_1, my-app_pgadmin_1
postgres_1 | The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
postgres_1 | This user must also own the server process.
postgres_1 |
postgres_1 | The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.utf8".
postgres_1 | The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8".
postgres_1 | The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
postgres_1 |
postgres_1 | Data page checksums are disabled.
postgres_1 |
postgres_1 | fixing permissions on existing directory /data/mydatabase ... ok
postgres_1 | creating subdirectories ... ok
postgres_1 | selecting dynamic shared memory implementation ... posix
postgres_1 | selecting default max_connections ... 100
postgres_1 | selecting default shared_buffers ... 128MB
postgres_1 | selecting default time zone ... UTC
postgres_1 | creating configuration files ... ok
postgres_1 | running bootstrap script ... ok
postgres_1 | performing post-bootstrap initialization ... sh: locale: not found
postgres_1 | 2022-09-06 14:03:48.965 UTC [32] WARNING: no usable system locales were found
postgres_1 | ok
postgres_1 | syncing data to disk ... initdb: warning: enabling "trust" authentication for local connections
postgres_1 | You can change this by editing pg_hba.conf or using the option -A, or
postgres_1 | --auth-local and --auth-host, the next time you run initdb.
postgres_1 | ok
postgres_1 |
postgres_1 |
postgres_1 | Success. You can now start the database server using:
postgres_1 |
postgres_1 | pg_ctl -D /data/mydatabase -l logfile start
postgres_1 |
postgres_1 | waiting for server to start....2022-09-06 14:03:49.890 UTC [38] LOG: starting PostgreSQL 14.2 on aarch64-unknown-linux-musl, compiled by gcc (Alpine 10.3.1_git20211027) 10.3.1 20211027, 64-bit
postgres_1 | 2022-09-06 14:03:49.891 UTC [38] LOG: listening on Unix socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"
postgres_1 | 2022-09-06 14:03:49.894 UTC [39] LOG: database system was shut down at 2022-09-06 14:03:49 UTC
postgres_1 | 2022-09-06 14:03:49.896 UTC [38] LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
postgres_1 | done
postgres_1 | server started
postgres_1 | CREATE DATABASE
postgres_1 |
postgres_1 |
postgres_1 | /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh: ignoring /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/*
postgres_1 |
postgres_1 | waiting for server to shut down....2022-09-06 14:03:50.195 UTC [38] LOG: received fast shutdown request
postgres_1 | 2022-09-06 14:03:50.196 UTC [38] LOG: aborting any active transactions
postgres_1 | 2022-09-06 14:03:50.197 UTC [38] LOG: background worker "logical replication launcher" (PID 45) exited with exit code 1
postgres_1 | 2022-09-06 14:03:50.197 UTC [40] LOG: shutting down
postgres_1 | 2022-09-06 14:03:50.204 UTC [38] LOG: database system is shut down
postgres_1 | done
postgres_1 | server stopped
postgres_1 |
postgres_1 | PostgreSQL init process complete; ready for start up.
postgres_1 |
postgres_1 | 2022-09-06 14:03:50.307 UTC [1] LOG: starting PostgreSQL 14.2 on aarch64-unknown-linux-musl, compiled by gcc (Alpine 10.3.1_git20211027) 10.3.1 20211027, 64-bit
postgres_1 | 2022-09-06 14:03:50.308 UTC [1] LOG: listening on IPv4 address "0.0.0.0", port 5432
postgres_1 | 2022-09-06 14:03:50.308 UTC [1] LOG: listening on IPv6 address "::", port 5432
postgres_1 | 2022-09-06 14:03:50.310 UTC [1] LOG: listening on Unix socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"
postgres_1 | 2022-09-06 14:03:50.313 UTC [52] LOG: database system was shut down at 2022-09-06 14:03:50 UTC
postgres_1 | 2022-09-06 14:03:50.315 UTC [1] LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
pgadmin_1 | NOTE: Configuring authentication for SERVER mode.
pgadmin_1 |
pgadmin_1 | [2022-09-06 14:03:56 +0000] [1] [INFO] Starting gunicorn 20.1.0
pgadmin_1 | [2022-09-06 14:03:56 +0000] [1] [INFO] Listening at: http://[::]:80 (1)
pgadmin_1 | [2022-09-06 14:03:56 +0000] [1] [INFO] Using worker: gthread
pgadmin_1 | [2022-09-06 14:03:56 +0000] [89] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 89
In my application, I initialize TypeORM with the following options:
const options = {
default: {
type: process.env.DATABASE_TYPE,
host: process.env.DATABASE_HOST,
port: process.env.DATABASE_PORT,
username: process.env.DATABASE_USERNAME,
password: process.env.DATABASE_PASSWORD,
database: process.env.DATABASE_NAME,
synchronize: true,
logging: false,
},
};
Whereas my .env holds the following information:
DATABASE_TYPE=postgres
DATABASE_HOST=localhost
DATABASE_PORT=5432
DATABASE_USERNAME=postgres
DATABASE_PASSWORD=postgres
DATABASE_NAME=mydatabase
I can access the container on the command line with:
docker exec -it my-app psql -U postgres mydatabase
and list the \l the databases and see mydatabase. But I get Did not find any relations. for \d because the application does not connect to the database and therefore there are no relations yet.
More information:
the application is running outside of the container
the application is not throwing an error, it just tries to connect indefinitely
I am using Docker container on MacOS
What am I missing here? Any help appreciated!