Node Express/Sequelize App - PostgreSQL clean exit

I have an app that is using express and sequelize. I built the app a month ago and everything was working fine. The client wanted to wait to finish it because they ran out of money. They contacted me so I opened up the app and when I ran it I got a clean exit. I have since isolated the issue to the sequelize connection and specifically the postgreSQL connection as it booted right up when i switched the connection to a mysql database. I know the user/pass/host/port/dbname are correct and the postgre server is running. Anybody have any ideas why this is happening?

This is the sequelize connection/server start code:

require('./config').sync()
  .then(() => app.listen(process.env.PORT || 3000))
  .catch(e => console.error(e))

This is my db config file:

const Sequelize = require('sequelize')

module.exports = new Sequelize(process.env.DATABASE_URL || process.env.LOCAL_URL)

This is my local_url .env variable:

postgres://root:password@localhost:5432/aoo_db

I know this code works as it was working before and it works with a mysql database.