If you have worked with QtSql, you might have hit the dreaded “Parameter count mismatch” for your perfectly valid SQL query. The problem is excruciatingly hard to debug because the query itself works perfectly fine with the sqlite3 tool.

Here’s the solution: Compile Qt with -system-sqlite.

The problem: Qt uses it’s own sqlite3 headers under src/3rdparty by default which are completely out of date. Qt 4.7 has sqlite3 header from 2009-10-14 version 3.6.18. Almost 2 years old and current sqlite version is 3.7.7! That’s like using Qt 4.5.3 in 2011 🙂 FTS3/4 table queries fail consistently when using Qt’s own headers.

I have opened QTBUG-21040.