diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/psql.out b/src/test/regress/expected/psql.out
index b6face58e39..f4975464f6a 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/psql.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/psql.out
@@ -2773,18 +2773,18 @@ Argument data types | numeric
 Type                | func
 
 \pset tuples_only false
--- test numericlocale (not too interesting in C locale, but ...)
+-- test numericlocale (as best we can without control of psql's locale)
 \pset format aligned
 \pset expanded off
 \pset numericlocale true
-select n, -n as m, n * 1000 + 111.1111 as x, '1e90'::float8 as f
+select n, -n as m, n * 111 as x, '1e90'::float8 as f
 from generate_series(0,3) n;
- n | m  |     x      |   f   
----+----+------------+-------
- 0 |  0 |   111.1111 | 1e+90
- 1 | -1 | 1,111.1111 | 1e+90
- 2 | -2 | 2,111.1111 | 1e+90
- 3 | -3 | 3,111.1111 | 1e+90
+ n | m  |  x  |   f   
+---+----+-----+-------
+ 0 |  0 |   0 | 1e+90
+ 1 | -1 | 111 | 1e+90
+ 2 | -2 | 222 | 1e+90
+ 3 | -3 | 333 | 1e+90
 (4 rows)
 
 \pset numericlocale false
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/psql.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/psql.sql
index bfe02d12be0..9ac6c208041 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/psql.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/psql.sql
@@ -448,13 +448,13 @@ select 1 where false;
 \df exp
 \pset tuples_only false
 
--- test numericlocale (not too interesting in C locale, but ...)
+-- test numericlocale (as best we can without control of psql's locale)
 
 \pset format aligned
 \pset expanded off
 \pset numericlocale true
 
-select n, -n as m, n * 1000 + 111.1111 as x, '1e90'::float8 as f
+select n, -n as m, n * 111 as x, '1e90'::float8 as f
 from generate_series(0,3) n;
 
 \pset numericlocale false