I use `WHERE true` for this. Very little cognitive load parsing that. And it makes AND conditions more copy pastable. Effectively the trailing comma of SQL where clauses

I absolutely cannot see how this would do what IDE formatting can’t, but admittedly the last time I wrote any significant amount of SQL directly was in a still-totally-relevant Perl 5 application. Could you give an example or link to a file in a public repository or whatever that would show this practice in context?