Ok, so I was able to fix this issue by changing the <host> data to explicitly use 127.0.0.1. Now I am getting some table doesn't exist, now to see about patching those

<database>
<host>127.0.0.1</host>
<port>3306</port>
<username>root</username>
<password>water</password>
<db>peq</db>
</database>