diff --git a/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c b/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
index 95be62c..43941ad 100644
--- a/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
+++ b/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
@@ -3241,6 +3241,8 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 		if (PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_TUPLES_OK)
 		{
 			fprintf(stderr, "%s", PQerrorMessage(con));
+			fprintf(stderr, "HINT pgbench:  is \"%s\" the right database? "
+					"did you initialize first (-i)?\n", PQdb(con));
 			exit(1);
 		}
 		scale = atoi(PQgetvalue(res, 0, 0));