>> Did you happen to test with FreeBSD on one of your test machines?
> No, I don't have any BSD machines here. However, I've added this test
> case to the regression tests, so in a few hours we'll have a spectrum
> of results from the PG build farm.
FWIW, I see a "pass" from buildfarm member cockatoo, which claims to be
FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE gcc 2.95.4 x86 ... that's at least pretty close to
your setup, no?
http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_status.pl
regards, tom lane