When upgrading to Django 1.8 (with zc.buildout) and running syncdb or migrate, I get this message:
django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: relation \"auth_user\" does no
Maybe you have found the answer and resolved the problem, but I wanted to point out that, in my case, the above problem was solved by dropping the database and re-creating it again, with the full privileges of the users. I was able to do this because I'm working on a non-production environment, but doing this on a staging environment is not a good idea, so be careful.
Im using python 2.7.12
and following are the specifications of my virtualenv:
Django==1.10.5
django-crispy-forms==1.6.1
django-registration-redux==1.4
djangorestframework==3.5.3
olefile==0.44
packaging==16.8
Pillow==4.0.0
psycopg2==2.6.2