I cannot find that specific version in the official git repos, so maybe this is some hacked versoin of osm2pgsql? The command line at least looks okay, I tried with pretty much the same command. I've also checked the pbf and it doesn't contain any duplicates, so osm2pgsql is wrong here. Maybe it isn't properly deleting the nodes table before starting the import. Normally it should drop and recreate table. In any case, I would recommend to try with a newer version of osm2pgsql. Either the 0.90.1 release or the newest source from github. Kind regards Sarah