postgres 6.3.2 and regexp

This may have been dealt with before, but I'm encountering a problem with regexp selects in postgres 6.3.2. Is this a known bug?

If I insert a value of '*test*' into an field and do a select like:

select * from table where 'This is a test entry'::text~*field;

I get a reply of:

ERROR: regcomp failed with error repetition-operator operand invalid

This happens anytime the text has a * as the first character.

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