On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 22:49, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> 1. You don't want number of clients (-c) much higher than scaling factor
> >> (-s in the initialization step).
>
> > Should we throw a warning when someone runs the test this way?
>
> Not a bad idea (though of course only for the "standard" scripts).
> Tatsuo, what do you think?
Just to clarify, I think the pgbench program should throw the warning,
not postgresql itself. Not sure if that's what you were meaning or
not. Maybe even have it require a switch to run in such a mode, like a
--yes-i-want-to-run-a-meaningless-test switch or something.