> Also I think the driver is highly biased towards dialect 3: I don't
> know what happens if you use it with a dialect 1 db.

Seems to work fine. You get a warning from the server that client
(dialect 3) and database (dialect 1) dialects do not match. That's
seems to be all problems (maybe some DATE/TIMESTAMP issues, haven't
checked). I haven't tried to change the client dialect to 1 though.

Best regards,
Roman Rokytskyy