Localhost Database inaccessible

My DBT project accesses the database from localhost. The database itself is remote but the connection is tunnelled to localhost:5433 as it can only be accessed using a VPN from a particular host. Anyway, all this to say that if your ~/.dbt/profiles.yml host key has localhost as a value, then you get an error like the below after it tries and fails to access the database for some time:

DbtError: Error returned from dbt while executing method 'poll': Database Error
  could not connect to server: Connection refused
  	Is the server running on host "localhost" (127.0.0.1) and accepting
  	TCP/IP connections on port 5433?
  could not connect to server: Cannot assign requested address
  	Is the server running on host "localhost" (::1) and accepting
  	TCP/IP connections on port 5433?

I use a mac and I can bypass this by changing localhost to host.docker.internal if running Docker 18.03 or later but it would be nice if there was a better solution that didn’t require me changing this. Also not sure what non-mac users need to do in order to access localhost from within the container. This should be mentioned in your docs as it seems you are assuming everyone’s database is remote. My particular case is probably niche but many may be using a local database for dev purposes

[owlas]

@TuringLovesDeathMetal I’ve added a docs update to help users workaround this but the underlying issue isn’t solved.

you still have to modify your profiles.yml to get this to work, which isn’t ideal. I’m leaving “open” but removing from the dev board until we revisit it.

[owlas]

No prob!

I’m going to add something to the docs for using host.docker.internal - I think that’s the best we have currently! Watch this space though