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Unable to use a port other than 5432 #1388

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Here is my docker compose:

services:
  test-db:
    image: postgres:18.1
    ports:
      - "5433:5433"
    volumes:
      - pgdata-test:/var/lib/postgresql
    environment:
      POSTGRES_DB: test 
      POSTGRES_USER: test
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: password
    command: -p 5433

volumes:
  pgdata-test:

Logs from DB container confirm DB started on 7433.

test-db-1  | PostgreSQL init process complete; ready for start up.
test-db-1  |
test-db-1  | 2025-12-27 01:56:16.668 UTC [1] LOG:  starting PostgreSQL 18.1 (Debian 18.1-1.pgdg13+2) on aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0, 64-bit
test-db-1  | 2025-12-27 01:56:16.669 UTC [1] LOG:  listening on IPv4 address "0.0.0.0", port 7433
test-db-1  | 2025-12-27 01:56:16.669 UTC [1] LOG:  listening on IPv6 address "::", port 7433
test-db-1  | 2025-12-27 01:56:16.670 UTC [1] LOG:  listening on Unix socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.7433"
test-db-1  | 2025-12-27 01:56:16.672 UTC [71] LOG:  database system was shut down at 2025-12-27 01:56:16 UTC
test-db-1  | 2025-12-27 01:56:16.674 UTC [1] LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections

Docker ps shows port forwarded

❯ docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE           COMMAND                  CREATED              STATUS              PORTS                                                   NAMES
b2c2a3b72886   postgres:18.1   "docker-entrypoint.s…"   About a minute ago   Up About a minute   5432/tcp, 0.0.0.0:7433->7433/tcp, [::]:7433->7433/tcp   test-db-1

Trying to connect from the host:

❯ psql -h localhost -U test -d test -p 7433
psql: error: connection to server at "localhost" (::1), port 7433 failed: Connection refused
	Is the server running on that host and accepting TCP/IP connections?
connection to server at "localhost" (127.0.0.1), port 7433 failed: Connection refused
	Is the server running on that host and accepting TCP/IP connections?

Now if I change the port to 5432, everything will work as expected.

Originally I was trying to run the DB on 5432 and only map the container port to 5433 but that didn't work either so I tried to also change the port postgresql binds to but nothing seems to work.

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