How to include an always-true where clause to an infostore query

Question

Hi all.  Iu2019m trying to crawl my way out of a coding nightmare and was wondering:  Is there any type of benign where clause that can be appended to an infostore query and always guarantee the same result (true) with no performance implications ?  Iu2019m looking for the equivalent of how u201C1=1u201D functions in the following statement for example:
select employees.id, employees.name from employees where employees.name = u2018john doeu2019 and 1=1
So, for example, I want something like:
select si_name, si_schedule_status from ci_appobjects where si_name = 'someobjectname' and 1=1
Is there anything that can silently pass-thru an always "true" evaluation?  I thought of using " ...where xyz and SI_ID is not null " but still need to flesh it out.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The "no performance implication" would be a bit difficult, since the CMS would have to parse anything you've put on. 
To minimize the performance hit, you can always do a check against an indexed property, such as 'and SI_ID < 0'.
I'm going to guess here that you've got a broken recursion or loop that you're using to construct a query, and need a terminating token.  If so, why not just post-process out the last clause before executing?
By the way, because of some quirks with the query language, 1=1 will likely not work.
Sincerely,
Ted Ueda