Wrong error returned "Cannot read properties of undefined… … (reading 'charset')" when error during handshake

[

  { val: 1n },

  meta: [

    ColumnDef {

      _stringParser: [StringParser],

      collation: [Collation],

      columnLength: 1,

      columnType: 8,

      flags: 129,

      scale: 0,

      type: 'BIGINT'

    }

  ]

]

undefined

/home/markusjm/sqltest/nodejs/node_modules/mariadb/lib/io/packet-output-stream.js:48

    this.encoding = collation.charset;

                              ^

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'charset')

    at PacketOutputStream.changeEncoding (/home/markusjm/sqltest/nodejs/node_modules/mariadb/lib/io/packet-output-stream.js:48:31)

    at EventEmitter.emit (node:events:532:35)

    at Connection.<anonymous> (/home/markusjm/sqltest/nodejs/node_modules/mariadb/lib/connection.js:595:21)

    at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:640:26)

    at Handshake.emit (node:events:520:28)

    at Handshake.throwError (/home/markusjm/sqltest/nodejs/node_modules/mariadb/lib/cmd/command.js:90:10)

    at Handshake.parseHandshakeInit (/home/markusjm/sqltest/nodejs/node_modules/mariadb/lib/cmd/handshake/handshake.js:54:19)

    at PacketInputStream.receivePacketBasic (/home/markusjm/sqltest/nodejs/node_modules/mariadb/lib/io/packet-input-stream.js:76:9)

    at PacketInputStream.onData (/home/markusjm/sqltest/nodejs/node_modules/mariadb/lib/io/packet-input-stream.js:139:20)

    at Socket.emit (node:events:520:28)

const mariadb = require("mariadb")

const pool = mariadb.createPool({

    host: '127.0.0.1',

    port: 3000,

    user:'maxuser',

    password: 'maxpwd',

    connectionLimit: 100

});

async function asyncFunction() {

    let conn;

    try {

        conn = await pool.getConnection();

        const rows = await conn.query("SELECT 1 as val");

        console.log(rows); //[ {val: 1}, meta: ... ]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

        const res = await conn.query("INSERT INTO myTable value (?, ?)", [1, "mariadb"]);

        console.log(res); // { affectedRows: 1, insertId: 1, warningStatus: 0 }                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    } catch (err) {

        throw err;

    } finally {

        if (conn) return conn.end();

    }

}

asyncFunction().then(console.log, console.log)