diff --git a/deployment/docker_compose/docker-compose.dev.yml b/deployment/docker_compose/docker-compose.dev.yml
index c39b0f3792b..0ec9a8b8252 100644
--- a/deployment/docker_compose/docker-compose.dev.yml
+++ b/deployment/docker_compose/docker-compose.dev.yml
@@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ services:
       - QA_PROMPT_OVERRIDE=${QA_PROMPT_OVERRIDE:-}
       # Other Services
       - POSTGRES_HOST=relational_db
+      - POSTGRES_USER=${POSTGRES_USER:-}
+      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-}
+      - POSTGRES_DB=${POSTGRES_DB:-}
       - VESPA_HOST=index
       - WEB_DOMAIN=${WEB_DOMAIN:-}  # For frontend redirect auth purpose for OAuth2 connectors
       # Don't change the NLP model configs unless you know what you're doing