Does Oracle use short-circuit evaluation?

Question

I have an Oracle query that is structured as followed:

SELECT   *
FROM     table
WHERE    X=\'true\' OR
         Y IN (complicated subquery)

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Answer 1

I came here looking for an answer on how to avoid crashing using short circuit evaluation. What I eventually got working is:

...
where case when [its not going to crash] 
           then [short circuit expression] 
           else [safe, never used value] 
       end = comparison_value
...

So, for example, if you are worried about a to_number expression crashing, you would put something like "REGEXP_LIKE(my_possible_number, '^[[:digit:]]+$')" in the when clause (for positive integers - adjust for non-positive or non-integer).