diff --git a/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c b/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
index 19532cfb545..5df54a8e57e 100644
--- a/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
+++ b/src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c
@@ -3728,16 +3728,6 @@ initDropTables(PGconn *con)
 static void
 initCreateTables(PGconn *con)
 {
-	/*
-	 * The scale factor at/beyond which 32-bit integers are insufficient for
-	 * storing TPC-B account IDs.
-	 *
-	 * Although the actual threshold is 21474, we use 20000 because it is
-	 * easier to document and remember, and isn't that far away from the real
-	 * threshold.
-	 */
-#define SCALE_32BIT_THRESHOLD 20000
-
 	/*
 	 * Note: TPC-B requires at least 100 bytes per row, and the "filler"
 	 * fields in these table declarations were intended to comply with that.