From fd89de5156c948a7b8fd6525eb4241b6f6f8e167 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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 719eca639aa..a1c04f23d8b 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
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