diff --git a/.changeset/blue-peas-tie.md b/.changeset/blue-peas-tie.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a2d2142207
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/blue-peas-tie.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"electric-sql": patch
+---
+
+CLI support for Docker compose version 2.24.6 by removing inheritance from docker-compose files.
diff --git a/clients/typescript/src/cli/docker-commands/command-start.ts b/clients/typescript/src/cli/docker-commands/command-start.ts
index a197c8d61c..d8cae31772 100644
--- a/clients/typescript/src/cli/docker-commands/command-start.ts
+++ b/clients/typescript/src/cli/docker-commands/command-start.ts
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ export function start(options: StartSettings) {
       ...(options.withPostgres
         ? {
             COMPOSE_PROFILES: 'with-postgres',
-            COMPOSE_ELECTRIC_SERVICE: 'electric-with-postgres',
             DATABASE_URL: `postgresql://postgres:${
               env?.DATABASE_PASSWORD ?? 'pg_password'
             }@postgres:${env?.DATABASE_PORT ?? '5432'}/${
diff --git a/clients/typescript/src/cli/docker-commands/docker-utils.ts b/clients/typescript/src/cli/docker-commands/docker-utils.ts
index 73b21c40a2..2e9dca755f 100644
--- a/clients/typescript/src/cli/docker-commands/docker-utils.ts
+++ b/clients/typescript/src/cli/docker-commands/docker-utils.ts
@@ -8,18 +8,25 @@ const composeFile = path.join(
   'compose.yaml'
 )
 
+const composeFileWithPostgres = path.join(
+  path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)),
+  'docker',
+  'compose-with-postgres.yaml'
+)
+
 export function dockerCompose(
   command: string,
   userArgs: string[] = [],
   containerName?: string,
   env: { [key: string]: string } = {}
 ) {
+  const withPostgres = env?.COMPOSE_PROFILES == 'with-postgres'
   const args = [
     'compose',
     '--ansi',
     'always',
     '-f',
-    composeFile,
+    withPostgres ? composeFileWithPostgres : composeFile,
     command,
     ...userArgs,
   ]
diff --git a/clients/typescript/src/cli/docker-commands/docker/compose-base.yaml b/clients/typescript/src/cli/docker-commands/docker/compose-base.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 49bcee0391..0000000000
--- a/clients/typescript/src/cli/docker-commands/docker/compose-base.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-version: '3.8'
-
-services:
-  electric-no-postgres:
-    init: true
-    stop_signal: SIGINT # use SIGINT as the more speedy alternative to SIGTERM
-
-  electric-with-postgres:
-    extends:
-      service: electric-no-postgres
-    depends_on:
-      - postgres
diff --git a/clients/typescript/src/cli/docker-commands/docker/compose-with-postgres.yaml b/clients/typescript/src/cli/docker-commands/docker/compose-with-postgres.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5cb4da4bdc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clients/typescript/src/cli/docker-commands/docker/compose-with-postgres.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+version: '3.8'
+
+configs:
+  postgres_config:
+    file: './postgres.conf'
+
+volumes:
+  pg_data:
+
+services:
+  postgres:
+    profiles: ['with-postgres']
+    image: '${POSTGRESQL_IMAGE:-postgres:14-alpine}'
+    environment:
+      POSTGRES_DB: ${DATABASE_NAME:-electric}
+      POSTGRES_USER: ${DATABASE_USER:-postgres}
+      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${DATABASE_PASSWORD:-db_password}
+    command:
+      - -c
+      - config_file=/etc/postgresql.conf
+      - -p
+      - ${DATABASE_PORT:-5432}
+    configs:
+      - source: postgres_config
+        target: /etc/postgresql.conf
+    healthcheck:
+      test:
+        [
+          'CMD-SHELL',
+          'pg_isready -U ${DATABASE_USER:-postgres} -p ${DATABASE_PORT:-5432}',
+        ]
+    extra_hosts:
+      - 'host.docker.internal:host-gateway'
+    ports:
+      - ${DATABASE_PORT:-5432}:${DATABASE_PORT:-5432}
+    volumes:
+      - pg_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
+
+  electric:
+    image: '${ELECTRIC_IMAGE:-electricsql/electric:latest}'
+    init: true
+    stop_signal: SIGINT # use SIGINT as the more speedy alternative to SIGTERM
+    ports:
+      - ${HTTP_PORT:-5133}:${HTTP_PORT:-5133}
+      - ${PG_PROXY_PORT_PARSED:-65432}:${PG_PROXY_PORT_PARSED:-65432}
+    environment:
+      DATABASE_REQUIRE_SSL: ${DATABASE_REQUIRE_SSL:-}
+      DATABASE_URL: ${DATABASE_URL:-}
+      DATABASE_USE_IPV6: ${DATABASE_USE_IPV6:-}
+      ELECTRIC_USE_IPV6: ${ELECTRIC_USE_IPV6:-}
+      HTTP_PORT: ${HTTP_PORT:-5133}
+      ELECTRIC_WRITE_TO_PG_MODE: ${ELECTRIC_WRITE_TO_PG_MODE:-}
+      LOGICAL_PUBLISHER_HOST: ${LOGICAL_PUBLISHER_HOST:-}
+      LOGICAL_PUBLISHER_PORT: ${LOGICAL_PUBLISHER_PORT:-5433}
+      PG_PROXY_PASSWORD: ${PG_PROXY_PASSWORD:-proxy_password}
+      PG_PROXY_PORT: ${PG_PROXY_PORT:-65432}
+      AUTH_MODE: ${AUTH_MODE:-insecure}
+      AUTH_JWT_ALG: ${AUTH_JWT_ALG:-}
+      AUTH_JWT_AUD: ${AUTH_JWT_AUD:-}
+      AUTH_JWT_ISS: ${AUTH_JWT_ISS:-}
+      AUTH_JWT_KEY: ${AUTH_JWT_KEY:-}
+      AUTH_JWT_NAMESPACE: ${AUTH_JWT_NAMESPACE:-}
+    depends_on:
+      - postgres
diff --git a/clients/typescript/src/cli/docker-commands/docker/compose.yaml b/clients/typescript/src/cli/docker-commands/docker/compose.yaml
index ff6104e087..dfd8f40ccd 100644
--- a/clients/typescript/src/cli/docker-commands/docker/compose.yaml
+++ b/clients/typescript/src/cli/docker-commands/docker/compose.yaml
@@ -37,10 +37,9 @@ services:
       - pg_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
 
   electric:
-    extends:
-      file: compose-base.yaml
-      service: ${COMPOSE_ELECTRIC_SERVICE:-electric-no-postgres}
     image: '${ELECTRIC_IMAGE:-electricsql/electric:latest}'
+    init: true
+    stop_signal: SIGINT # use SIGINT as the more speedy alternative to SIGTERM
     ports:
       - ${HTTP_PORT:-5133}:${HTTP_PORT:-5133}
       - ${PG_PROXY_PORT_PARSED:-65432}:${PG_PROXY_PORT_PARSED:-65432}