diff --git a/src/test/regress/bin/normalize.sed b/src/test/regress/bin/normalize.sed
index 65692e1c9..731ae659a 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/bin/normalize.sed
+++ b/src/test/regress/bin/normalize.sed
@@ -309,3 +309,6 @@ s/(NOTICE:  issuing SET LOCAL application_name TO 'citus_rebalancer gpid=)[0-9]+
 s/improvement of 0.1[0-9]* is lower/improvement of 0.1xxxxx is lower/g
 # normalize tenants statistics annotations
 s/\/\*\{"tId":.*\*\///g
+
+# Notice message that contains current columnar version that makes it harder to bump versions
+s/(NOTICE:  issuing CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS citus_columnar WITH SCHEMA  pg_catalog VERSION )"[0-9]+\.[0-9]+-[0-9]+"/\1 "x.y-z"/
diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/multi_fix_partition_shard_index_names.out b/src/test/regress/expected/multi_fix_partition_shard_index_names.out
index ef47efed4..5f7526982 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/multi_fix_partition_shard_index_names.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/multi_fix_partition_shard_index_names.out
@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ NOTICE:  issuing BEGIN TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ COMMITTED;SELECT assign_
 DETAIL:  on server postgres@localhost:xxxxx connectionId: xxxxxxx
 NOTICE:  issuing SET citus.enable_ddl_propagation TO 'off'
 DETAIL:  on server postgres@localhost:xxxxx connectionId: xxxxxxx
-NOTICE:  issuing CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS citus_columnar WITH SCHEMA  pg_catalog VERSION "11.3-1";
+NOTICE:  issuing CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS citus_columnar WITH SCHEMA  pg_catalog VERSION  "x.y-z";
 DETAIL:  on server postgres@localhost:xxxxx connectionId: xxxxxxx
 NOTICE:  issuing COMMIT
 DETAIL:  on server postgres@localhost:xxxxx connectionId: xxxxxxx
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ NOTICE:  issuing BEGIN TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ COMMITTED;SELECT assign_
 DETAIL:  on server postgres@localhost:xxxxx connectionId: xxxxxxx
 NOTICE:  issuing SET citus.enable_ddl_propagation TO 'off'
 DETAIL:  on server postgres@localhost:xxxxx connectionId: xxxxxxx
-NOTICE:  issuing CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS citus_columnar WITH SCHEMA  pg_catalog VERSION "11.3-1";
+NOTICE:  issuing CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS citus_columnar WITH SCHEMA  pg_catalog VERSION  "x.y-z";
 DETAIL:  on server postgres@localhost:xxxxx connectionId: xxxxxxx
 NOTICE:  issuing COMMIT
 DETAIL:  on server postgres@localhost:xxxxx connectionId: xxxxxxx