Improper handling of Postgis tables with multiple geometry columns

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OGR is not able to handle properly feature types with multiple geometries.
In the specific case of a Postgis table with 4 geometry columns we do have the following output:

ogrinfo -so PG:"host=localhost port=5432 user=myuser
 password=mystery dbname=tiger2005fe" major_roads

INFO: Open of `PG:host=localhost port=5432 user=myuser password=mystery dbname=tiger2005fe' using driver `PostgreSQL' successful.

Layer name: major_roads
Geometry: Unknown (any)
Feature Count: 105628
Extent: (-170.837387, -14.377902) - (144.914001, 66.922287)
Layer SRS WKT:
(unknown)
Geometry Column = gen_full
fid: Integer (0.0)
interstate: Integer (0.0)
othername: String (0.0)
state: String (0.0)
statehighway: Integer (0.0)
ushighway: Integer (0.0)

Layer name: major_roads
Geometry: Unknown (any)
Feature Count: 105628
Extent: (-170.837387, -14.377902) - (144.914001, 66.922287)
Layer SRS WKT:
(unknown)
Geometry Column = gen_full
fid: Integer (0.0)
interstate: Integer (0.0)
othername: String (0.0)
state: String (0.0)
statehighway: Integer (0.0)
ushighway: Integer (0.0)

Layer name: major_roads
Geometry: Unknown (any)
Feature Count: 105628
Extent: (-170.837387, -14.377902) - (144.914001, 66.922287)
Layer SRS WKT:
(unknown)
Geometry Column = gen_full
fid: Integer (0.0)
interstate: Integer (0.0)
othername: String (0.0)
state: String (0.0)
statehighway: Integer (0.0)
ushighway: Integer (0.0)

Layer name: major_roads
Geometry: Unknown (any)
Feature Count: 105628
Extent: (-170.837387, -14.377902) - (144.914001, 66.922287)
Layer SRS WKT:
(unknown)
Geometry Column = gen_full
fid: Integer (0.0)
interstate: Integer (0.0)
othername: String (0.0)
state: String (0.0)
statehighway: Integer (0.0)
ushighway: Integer (0.0)

whilst the table definition is:

tiger2005fe=# \d major_roads
                             Table "public.major_roads"
    Column    |   Type   |                         Modifiers
--------------+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------
 state        | text     |
 gen_full     | geometry |
 gen_1        | geometry |
 gen_2        | geometry |
 gen_3        | geometry |
 interstate   | integer  |
 ushighway    | integer  |
 statehighway | integer  |
 othername    | text     |
 fid          | integer  | not null default nextval('major_roads_fid_seq'::regclass)
Indexes:
    "fid_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (fid)
    "major_roads_spatial_ind" gist (gen_full)
    "major_roads_spatial_ind1" gist (gen_1)
    "major_roads_spatial_ind2" gist (gen_2)
    "major_roads_spatial_ind3" gist (gen_3)