diff --git a/test/load/errors.sql b/test/load/errors.sql
index cf70ab7086..02abc37f3a 100644
--- a/test/load/errors.sql
+++ b/test/load/errors.sql
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 \ir fixtures.sql
 
 SELECT format('CREATE TABLE test.actors_%s ();', n)
-FROM generate_series(1, 20000) n
+FROM generate_series(1, 450) n -- 500 is the upper limit for table not found error hint generation
 \gexec
 
 -- TODO add many function for fuzzy search (somehow this is making the loadtest start slow)