Knex: Timeout acquiring a connection. The pool is probably full. Are you missing a .transacting(trx) call?

I got this error, when trying to insert into a managed postgres db from digital ocean, i could view the db in the database manager and manual add rows. But when inserting in the live app, i got below error

Knex: Timeout acquiring a connection. The pool is probably full. Are you missing a .transacting(trx) call?

What am i doing wrong?