Is there a boolean literal in SQLite?

I know about the boolean column type, but is there a boolean literal in SQLite? In other languages, this might be true or false. Obviously, I can use 0 and 1, but I tend to avoid so-called "magic numbers" where possible.

From this list, it seems like it might exist in other SQL implementations, but not SQLite. (I'm using SQLite 3.6.10, for what it's worth.)

Solution 1:

From section 1.1 Boolean Datatype of the docs:

SQLite does not have a separate Boolean storage class. Instead, Boolean values are stored as integers 0 (false) and 1 (true).

So it looks like you are stuck with 0 and 1.

Solution 2:

Is there a boolean literal in SQLite?

As stated in Justin Ethier's answer, SQLite does not have specific data type for boolean. But starting from SQLite 3.23.0 it supports true/false literals:

2. Recognize TRUE and FALSE as constants. (For compatibility, if there exist columns named "true" or "false", then the identifiers refer to the columns rather than Boolean constants.)

3. Support operators IS TRUE, IS FALSE, IS NOT TRUE, and IS NOT FALSE.

SELECT true AS t, false AS f;

SELECT 'condition is true'
WHERE 1 IS NOT FALSE;

CREATE TABLE a (id INT, b BOOLEAN DEFAULT(TRUE));
INSERT INTO a(id) VALUES(100);
SELECT * FROM a;
-- id  b
-- 100 1

SELECT * FROM a WHERE true;
-- id  b
-- 100 1

dbfiddle.com demo