Erdaicc Fixed Instant

A custom PL/SQL function in the source Oracle database returned NULL for UNIT_COST on newly added products. ERDAICC’s null-handling logic caught the exception, logged "fixed" (by substituting a zero), but then triggered a division-by-zero in a downstream discount calculation.

The root cause turned out to be a mutex deadlock in the retry backoff calculator. Two processes were waiting on each other to release a lock neither could free. Classic race condition, but hidden under three layers of async wrappers. erdaicc fixed

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