osm2pgsql doesn’t work with –hstore flag if hstore extension is not loaded

I'm trying to import some OSM data into my postgis database and can't seem to get it to work. The data is an a US state extract from geofabrik that was further reduced using OSM convert to my study area. I checked out the data in QGIS and it looks good.

Below is the error message I receive when run osm2pgsql. I checked the database after running the tool and there is only one table listed "spatial_ref_sys". Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

C:\Users\moreland_t\Documents\OSM Playground\Data>osm2pgsql tennessee.osm_RPG_01
 -d OSM -U postgres -W secretpassword  -P 5432 -S default.style --hstore
osm2pgsql SVN version 0.69-21289M

Password:
Using projection SRS 900913 (Spherical Mercator)
Setting up table: planet_osm_point
NOTICE:  table "planet_osm_point" does not exist, skipping
NOTICE:  table "planet_osm_point_tmp" does not exist, skipping
CREATE TABLE planet_osm_point ( osm_id int4,"access" text,"addr:flats" text,"add
r:housenumber" text,"addr:interpolation" text,"admin_level" text,"aerialway" tex
t,"aeroway" text,"amenity" text,"area" text,"barrier" text,"bicycle" text,"bridg
e" text,"boundary" text,"building" text,"capital" text,"construction" text,"cutt
ing" text,"disused" text,"ele" text,"embankment" text,"foot" text,"highway" text
,"historic" text,"horse" text,"junction" text,"landuse" text,"layer" text,"learn
ing" text,"leisure" text,"lock" text,"man_made" text,"military" text,"motorcar"
text,"name" text,"natural" text,"oneway" text,"operator" text,"poi" text,"power"
 text,"power_source" text,"place" text,"railway" text,"ref" text,"religion" text
,"residence" text,"route" text,"service" text,"shop" text,"sport" text,"tourism"
 text,"tunnel" text,"waterway" text,"width" text,"wood" text,"z_order" int4,tags
 hstore );
 failed: ERROR:  type "hstore" does not exist
LINE 1: ... text,"width" text,"wood" text,"z_order" int4,tags hstore );
                                                              ^

Error occurred, cleaning up