Qt PostgreSQL foreign key issue - c++

Question

I've created a table which is called user_parameters in Qt Creator. While I was trying to give a reference to another table which is cities. I faced with a syntax error. My snippet for using foreign key and error are given bellow. How can I solve this error? Thx for your helping.
QSqlQuery query;
query.exec("CREATE TABLE user_parameters "
"(id SERIAL primary key, "
"firstname varchar(50), "
"lastname varchar(50), "
"age integer, "
"username varchar(50), "
"password varchar(100), "
"cityID integer references cities(id))");
QSqlQuery insertQuery;
int last_id = maxIdValue() + 1;
insertQuery.prepare("INSERT INTO user_parameters (id, firstname, lastname, age, username, password, cityID)"
"VALUES(:id, :firstname, :lastname, :age, :username, :password, :cityID)");
insertQuery.bindValue(":id", last_id);
insertQuery.bindValue(":firstname", fName);
insertQuery.bindValue(":lastname", lName);
insertQuery.bindValue(":age", age);
insertQuery.bindValue(":username", userName);
insertQuery.bindValue(":password", password);
insertQuery.bindValue(":cityID", cityID);
QSqlError("42601", "QPSQL: Unable to create query", "ERROR: syntax error at or near "("\nLINE 1: EXECUTE (1, 'Name', 'Surname', 22, 'userName', 'password', 1)\n ^\n(42601)")

Answer 1

your query looks ok to me , however you might be missing a space before "values" keyword.also two side notes :
serial is deprecated method of having identity column. use generated as identity instead.
serial/ identity columns are managed by sql engine, you can avoid getting max value and insert it each time.
so :
insertQuery.prepare("INSERT INTO user_parameters (firstname, lastname, age, username, password, cityID) "
"VALUES(:firstname, :lastname, :age, :username, :password, :cityID)");
notice the space at the end of first line