On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 22:49, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
