diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/merge.out b/src/test/regress/expected/merge.out
index 47f122072..5f2bb0522 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/merge.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/merge.out
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ SELECT 1 FROM master_add_node('localhost', :master_port, groupid => 0);
         1
 (1 row)
 
-ALTER SEQUENCE pg_catalog.pg_dist_colocationid_seq RESTART 13000;
 RESET client_min_messages;
 CREATE TABLE source
 (
@@ -1844,6 +1843,7 @@ SELECT compare_tables();
 
 ROLLBACK;
 -- let's create source and target table
+ALTER SEQUENCE pg_catalog.pg_dist_colocationid_seq RESTART 13000;
 CREATE TABLE source_pushdowntest (id integer);
 CREATE TABLE target_pushdowntest (id integer );
 -- let's distribute both table on id field
@@ -1861,12 +1861,22 @@ SELECT create_distributed_table('target_pushdowntest', 'id');
 
 -- we are doing this operation on single node setup let's figure out colocation id of both tables
 -- both has same colocation id so both are colocated.
-select colocationid,logicalrelid from pg_dist_partition where logicalrelid = 'source_pushdowntest'::regclass OR logicalrelid = 'target_pushdowntest'::regclass;
- colocationid |    logicalrelid
+WITH colocations AS (
+    SELECT colocationid
+    FROM pg_dist_partition
+    WHERE logicalrelid = 'source_pushdowntest'::regclass
+       OR logicalrelid = 'target_pushdowntest'::regclass
+)
+SELECT
+    CASE
+        WHEN COUNT(DISTINCT colocationid) = 1 THEN 'Same'
+        ELSE 'Different'
+    END AS colocation_status
+FROM colocations;
+ colocation_status
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-        13000 | source_pushdowntest
-        13000 | target_pushdowntest
-(2 rows)
+ Same
+(1 row)
 
 SET client_min_messages TO DEBUG1;
 -- Test 1 : tables are colocated AND query is multisharded AND Join On distributed column : should push down to workers.
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/merge.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/merge.sql
index 7b76957a1..583925d8a 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/merge.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/merge.sql
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ SET citus.shard_replication_factor TO 1;
 SET citus.max_adaptive_executor_pool_size TO 1;
 SET client_min_messages = warning;
 SELECT 1 FROM master_add_node('localhost', :master_port, groupid => 0);
-ALTER SEQUENCE pg_catalog.pg_dist_colocationid_seq RESTART 13000;
 RESET client_min_messages;
 
 CREATE TABLE source
@@ -1209,6 +1208,7 @@ ROLLBACK;
 
 
 -- let's create source and target table
+ALTER SEQUENCE pg_catalog.pg_dist_colocationid_seq RESTART 13000;
 CREATE TABLE source_pushdowntest (id integer);
 CREATE TABLE target_pushdowntest (id integer );
 
@@ -1218,7 +1218,19 @@ SELECT create_distributed_table('target_pushdowntest', 'id');
 
 -- we are doing this operation on single node setup let's figure out colocation id of both tables
 -- both has same colocation id so both are colocated.
-select colocationid,logicalrelid from pg_dist_partition where logicalrelid = 'source_pushdowntest'::regclass OR logicalrelid = 'target_pushdowntest'::regclass;
+WITH colocations AS (
+    SELECT colocationid
+    FROM pg_dist_partition
+    WHERE logicalrelid = 'source_pushdowntest'::regclass
+       OR logicalrelid = 'target_pushdowntest'::regclass
+)
+SELECT 
+    CASE
+        WHEN COUNT(DISTINCT colocationid) = 1 THEN 'Same'
+        ELSE 'Different'
+    END AS colocation_status
+FROM colocations;
+
 
 SET client_min_messages TO DEBUG1;
 -- Test 1 : tables are colocated AND query is multisharded AND Join On distributed column : should push down to workers.