Connect RETOOL to locally-hosted postgres database

Question

I am trying to connect Retool to a postgres database running on my local machine.

The connection string looks something like this:

postgresql://USERNAME:PASSWORD@localhost:5432/application?schema=public

When I try to connect to it using retool, I get this error:

Unable to connect. Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:5432

The docs say something about whitelisting Retool's IP addresses, but I am not sure how to do that.

Thank you!

EDIT: I am running the self-hosted version of Retool using Docker.

Answer 1

Try using host.docker.internal as host instead of localhost