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Drowning in Postgres initialization errors

afx
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Hi, my 10.0.3 systems (SH, DS and indexers) send me several hundred postgres errors each day that seem to indicate that there is an initialization issue:

IDX & SH:

{"time":"2026-03-04T09:23:53.710005158+01:00","level":"ERROR","source":{"function":"postgres-service/package/teleportplugin.(*PostgresPlugin).BootstrapPostgres","file":"postgres-service/package/teleportplugin/postgres.go","line":529},"msg":"Failed to setup databases and users:","Err":"error creating database -- Schema file for setting up database for sidecar service\n-- Version: 1.0\n-- Date: 05/17/2024\n\nCREATE DATABASE search_metadata WITH OWNER = \"do.root.splunk\" CONNECTION LIMIT 5;\nCREATE DATABASE kvstore WITH OWNER = \"kvstore.pdl.splunk\" TEMPLATE = template0 LC_COLLATE = 'C' LC_CTYPE = 'C' CONNECTION LIMIT 5;\nCREATE DATABASE acies_config_service WITH OWNER = \"acc.dbuser.splunk\" CONNECTION LIMIT 5;\nCREATE DATABASE opamp_service WITH OWNER = \"oas.root.splunk\" CONNECTION LIMIT 5;\n: pq: template database \"template1\" has a collation version mismatch\n\tFailed to create database\n\tfailed to create database"}

DS:

{"time":"2026-03-04T09:26:19.466646819+01:00","level":"ERROR","source":{"function":"postgres-service/package/teleportplugin.(*PostgresPlugin).BootstrapPostgres","file":"postgres-service/package/teleportplugin/postgres.go","line":521},"msg":"Failed to initialize DAL:","Error":"failed to ping PostgreSQL: pq: password authentication failed for user \"postgres_admin\"\n\tFailed to connect to Postgres\n\tFailed to connect to Postgres"}

{"time":"2026-03-04T09:26:19.466614486+01:00","level":"ERROR","source":{"function":"postgres-service/internal/db.NewDAL","file":"postgres-service/internal/db/dal.go","line":64},"msg":"Failed to initialize database connection","error":"failed to ping PostgreSQL: pq: password authentication failed for user \"postgres_admin\"\n\tFailed to connect to Postgres"}

I am a bit lost on what I need to do to set this up.

thx
afx

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