diff --git a/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c b/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c
index 706fdf5..1c324ce 100644
--- a/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c
+++ b/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c
@@ -3212,6 +3212,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 		if (PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_TUPLES_OK)
 		{
 			fprintf(stderr, "%s", PQerrorMessage(con));
+			fprintf(stderr, "HINT: is \"%s\" the right database? did you initialize first (pgbench -i)?\n", dbName);
 			exit(1);
 		}
 		scale = atoi(PQgetvalue(res, 0, 0));