cant call function due to strange type error

for some reason the driver casts a number to a string?
schema:

CREATE EXTENSION pgcrypto;

CREATE TABLE users (
    id       SERIAL NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
    username TEXT   NOT NULL UNIQUE,
    password TEXT   NOT NULL
);

CREATE TABLE sessions (
    id         uuid      NOT NULL DEFAULT GEN_RANDOM_UUID() PRIMARY KEY,
    expires_at timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW() + INTERVAL '1 day',
    user_id    int       NOT NULL REFERENCES users(id) ON DELETE CASCADE
);

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION update_password(
    p_userid INT,
    p_new_password TEXT
) RETURNS TABLE(session_id uuid, expires_at timestamp) AS $$
DECLARE
    v_user_id INT;
BEGIN
    UPDATE users
    SET password = crypt(p_new_password, gen_salt('bf'))
    WHERE id = p_userid
    RETURNING id INTO v_user_id;

    IF NOT FOUND THEN
        RAISE EXCEPTION 'User not found';
    END IF;

    DELETE FROM sessions WHERE user_id = v_user_id;

    INSERT INTO sessions (user_id)
    VALUES (v_user_id)
    RETURNING id, sessions.expires_at INTO session_id, expires_at;

    RETURN NEXT;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

query:

await sql`SELECT * FROM update_password(${38},${"new password"})`

error:

Uncaught PostgresError: operator does not exist: integer = text
    at ErrorResponse (file:///home/angst/dev/links/node_modules/postgres/src/connection.js:788:26)
    at handle (file:///home/angst/dev/links/node_modules/postgres/src/connection.js:474:6)
    at Socket.data (file:///home/angst/dev/links/node_modules/postgres/src/connection.js:315:9)
    at Socket.emit (node:events:518:28)
    at Socket.emit (node:domain:552:15)
    at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:561:12)
    at readableAddChunkPushByteMode (node:internal/streams/readable:512:3)
    at Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:392:5)
    at TCP.onStreamRead (node:internal/stream_base_commons:191:23)
    at TCP.callbackTrampoline (node:internal/async_hooks:130:17)
    at cachedError (file:///home/angst/dev/links/node_modules/postgres/src/query.js:170:23)
    at new Query (file:///home/angst/dev/links/node_modules/postgres/src/query.js:36:24)
    at sql (file:///home/angst/dev/links/node_modules/postgres/src/index.js:112:11)
    at REPL25:1:40 {
  severity_local: 'ERROR',
  severity: 'ERROR',
  code: '42883',
  hint: 'No operator matches the given name and argument types. You might need to add explicit type casts.',
  where: 'PL/pgSQL function update_password(text,text) line 6 at SQL statement',
  internal_position: '84',
  internal_query: 'UPDATE users\n' +
    "    SET password = crypt(p_new_password, gen_salt('bf'))\n" +
    '    WHERE id = p_userid\n' +
    '    RETURNING id',
  file: 'parse_oper.c',
  line: '635',
  routine: 'op_error'
}

if i run same query via psql it works fine..

SELECT * FROM update_password(38,'newpass');

Reproduce the JavaScript template query against the supplied PostgreSQL function and compare it with the psql call. Start by tracing the parameter and query handling around node_modules/postgres/src/query.js and connection.js; done means the JavaScript call resolves the function with the intended argument types without the integer-versus-text operator error.