From fd89de5156c948a7b8fd6525eb4241b6f6f8e167 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Lane Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:26:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add note that scaling factor should be >= # of clients. --- contrib/pgbench/README.pgbench | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/contrib/pgbench/README.pgbench b/contrib/pgbench/README.pgbench index 719eca639a..a1c04f23d8 100644 --- a/contrib/pgbench/README.pgbench +++ b/contrib/pgbench/README.pgbench @@ -99,7 +99,9 @@ o options number of tuples generated will be multiple of the scaling factor. For example, -s 100 will imply 10M (10,000,000) tuples in the accounts table. - default is 1. + default is 1. NOTE: scaling factor should be at least + as large as the largest number of clients you intend + to test; else you'll mostly be measuring update contention. -U login Specify db user's login name if it is different from