Is there anyways to not connect to the Meltano db when running an Meltano install? If the DB is just storing state and runs I’m not sure why that step is necessary?

I dont know off hand I'd guess there's a reason if we dove into the code base, you could submit an issue if there's some issue you're having because of it!

I think I have a solution now - just wanted to make sure there wasn't a flag I was missing or something