After doing a new composer install and update of October I tried to connect it to my local postgres database I newly created for it.

When trying to go through the command line install prompts I keep getting 'could not find driver (SQL: select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema = public and table_name = migrations)'. How do I fix this?

I just created the database with the same user i gave in the setup, I haven't added any tables or edited the newly created database. I'm using the php artisan october:install command.

Problem was that php didn't install with postgres pdo, solution was to reinstall php with brew and add the postgres option in reinstall.

homebrew reinstall php71 --with-pgsql

apt-get install php-pgsql , then service apache2 restart