diff --git a/test_runner/regress/test_pg_regress.py b/test_runner/regress/test_pg_regress.py
index f4698191eb..6a5e388c53 100644
--- a/test_runner/regress/test_pg_regress.py
+++ b/test_runner/regress/test_pg_regress.py
@@ -110,13 +110,15 @@ def post_checks(env: NeonEnv, test_output_dir: Path, db_name: str, endpoint: End
 
     check_restored_datadir_content(test_output_dir, env, endpoint, ignored_files=ignored_files)
 
-    # Ensure that compaction works, on a timeline containing all the diversity that postgres regression tests create.
+    # Ensure that compaction/GC works, on a timeline containing all the diversity that postgres regression tests create.
     # There should have been compactions mid-test as well, this final check is in addition those.
     for shard, pageserver in tenant_get_shards(env, env.initial_tenant):
         pageserver.http_client().timeline_checkpoint(
             shard, env.initial_timeline, force_repartition=True, force_image_layer_creation=True
         )
 
+        pageserver.http_client().timeline_gc(shard, env.initial_timeline, None)
+
 
 # Run the main PostgreSQL regression tests, in src/test/regress.
 #