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Re-setup on Synology: PG is not connecting

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Been running for over a year, but my immich instance got borked, so tried to start-over.

I wrote the community guide for Synology set-up, but it's out of date now. So instead tried using the Portainer guide in docs. Also tried Container Manager in Synology as well as Docker compose throug the SSH - all run into the same problem. My Immich can't connect to my PG database. I've tried chatgpt/etc for help, but I'm at a loss. Spent 2 days on this - hoping I'm missing something stupid.

HAS ANYONE SUCCESSFULLY DEPLOYED 2.3.1 ON A SYNOLOGY?

Here's the error in the logs:

Error: write CONNECT_TIMEOUT database:5432
at connectTimedOut (/usr/src/app/server/node_modules/.pnpm/postgres@3.4.7/node_modules/postgres/cjs/src/connection.js:257:20)
at Timeout.done [as _onTimeout] (/usr/src/app/server/node_modules/.pnpm/postgres@3.4.7/node_modules/postgres/cjs/src/connection.js:1039:8)
at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:590:11)
at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:523:7) {
code: 'CONNECT_TIMEOUT',
errno: 'CONNECT_TIMEOUT',
address: 'database',

port: 5432
}
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