diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/regex.linux.utf8.out b/src/test/regress/expected/regex.linux.utf8.out
index 7c170a99f3..3550cffb88 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/regex.linux.utf8.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/regex.linux.utf8.out
@@ -1,8 +1,15 @@
 /*
- * This test is for Linux/glibc systems and others that implement proper
- * locale classification of Unicode characters with high code values.
+ * This test is for Linux/glibc systems (conceivably it could be run on
+ * others that implement proper classification of high Unicode characters).
  * It must be run in a database with UTF8 encoding and a Unicode-aware locale.
  */
+SELECT getdatabaseencoding() <> 'UTF8' OR
+       current_setting('lc_ctype') = 'C' OR
+       version() !~ 'linux-gnu'
+       AS skip_test \gset
+\if :skip_test
+\quit
+\endif
 SET client_encoding TO UTF8;
 --
 -- Test the "high colormap" logic with single characters and ranges that
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/regex.linux.utf8_1.out b/src/test/regress/expected/regex.linux.utf8_1.out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9c6ff49541
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/regex.linux.utf8_1.out
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+/*
+ * This test is for Linux/glibc systems (conceivably it could be run on
+ * others that implement proper classification of high Unicode characters).
+ * It must be run in a database with UTF8 encoding and a Unicode-aware locale.
+ */
+SELECT getdatabaseencoding() <> 'UTF8' OR
+       current_setting('lc_ctype') = 'C' OR
+       version() !~ 'linux-gnu'
+       AS skip_test \gset
+\if :skip_test
+\quit
diff --git a/src/test/regress/parallel_schedule b/src/test/regress/parallel_schedule
index 5b0c73d7e3..d442eb7411 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/parallel_schedule
+++ b/src/test/regress/parallel_schedule
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ test: create_table_like alter_generic alter_operator misc async dbsize misc_func
 # rules cannot run concurrently with any test that creates
 # a view or rule in the public schema
 # collate.*.utf8 tests cannot be run in parallel with each other
-test: rules psql psql_crosstab amutils stats_ext collate.linux.utf8
+test: rules psql psql_crosstab amutils stats_ext collate.linux.utf8 regex.linux.utf8
 
 # run by itself so it can run parallel workers
 test: select_parallel
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/regex.linux.utf8.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/regex.linux.utf8.sql
index 4577811645..2dd269e372 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/regex.linux.utf8.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/regex.linux.utf8.sql
@@ -1,9 +1,17 @@
 /*
- * This test is for Linux/glibc systems and others that implement proper
- * locale classification of Unicode characters with high code values.
+ * This test is for Linux/glibc systems (conceivably it could be run on
+ * others that implement proper classification of high Unicode characters).
  * It must be run in a database with UTF8 encoding and a Unicode-aware locale.
  */
 
+SELECT getdatabaseencoding() <> 'UTF8' OR
+       current_setting('lc_ctype') = 'C' OR
+       version() !~ 'linux-gnu'
+       AS skip_test \gset
+\if :skip_test
+\quit
+\endif
+
 SET client_encoding TO UTF8;
 
 --