wordpress - Error establishing a database connection

I once got this error, i checked wp-config.php and found the user/pwd has been typed correctly. So there's no problem with user/pwd, but still the wordpress will show error msg :

'error establishing a database connection'

This is maybe a solution :

- open wp-config.php

- go to the part define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

- replace 'localhost' with '127.0.0.1:8889'

Cheers.