I am using vercel's postgres db and its SDK. Getting a headache trying to embed my sql query inside the sql sdk.

import format from 'pg-format'; // use the pg-format library

export async function fetchAutoCompleteSearchAreas(query: string) {
    console.log(query);
    const sqll = format("SELECT id, geo_name, resource_name, geo_type FROM geo_areas WHERE LOWER(geo_name) LIKE LOWER('%s%')", query);
    console.log('query: ' + sqll);
    const autoCompleteAreas = await sql<AutoCompleteSearchArea>`
    ${sqll}
    `;
    return autoCompleteAreas.rows;
}

I keep getting this syntax error:

POST /map 500 in 288ms
  │ POST https://ep-broad-leaf-m4azxee4-pooler.us-east-1.aws.neon.tech/sql 400 in 264ms (cache: SKIP)
  │  │  Cache missed reason: (fetchCache = force-no-store)
Alaba
query: SELECT id, geo_name, resource_name, geo_type FROM geo_areas WHERE LOWER(geo_name) LIKE LOWER('Alaba%')
 ⨯ node_modules/@neondatabase/serverless/index.mjs (1539:27) @ execute
 ⨯ NeonDbError: syntax error at or near "$1"
    at async fetchAutoCompleteSearchAreas (./app/lib/data.ts:159:31)