Concat truncates at 257 characters

Hello,

My automated database unit tests compare the actual result to the expected
result then provides a pass or fail status. When it fails, it constructs a
difference string with an ^ pointing to each mismatching character between
the two. Some of my tests have very long strings of data used to validate
that a function is working correctly under very specific test conditions.
The problem is that the concat and || are truncating the result.

The following simple examples all truncate at 257 characters and add a
trailing " (...)".

select rpad('', 200, 'A') || rpad('', 200, 'B');

select rpad('', 200, 'A')::text || rpad('', 200, 'B')::text;

select cast( rpad('', 200, 'A')::text || rpad('', 200, 'B')::text as text );

select cast( rpad('', 200, 'A') as text ) || cast( rpad('', 200, 'B') as
text );

select cast( cast( rpad('', 200, 'A') as text ) || cast( rpad('', 200, 'B')
as text ) as text);

select concat( rpad('', 200, 'A'), rpad('', 200, 'B') );

select concat( rpad('', 200, 'A')::varchar(4000) , rpad('', 200,
'B')::varchar(4000) )::varchar(4000);

select concat( rpad('', 200, 'A')::text , rpad('', 200, 'B')::text )::text;

Database:
"PostgreSQL 9.3.1 on x86_64-apple-darwin, compiled by
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build
5658) (LLVM build 2336.9.00), 64-bit"

Mac:
System Version: OS X 10.9 (13A603)
Kernel Version: Darwin 13.0.0

How can I extend the concat beyond 257?

Thank you,

Pat