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ASF GitHub Bot commented on TINKERPOP-3115:
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Cole-Greer commented on code in PR #3121:
URL: https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/pull/3121#discussion_r2127322902
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docs/src/upgrade/release-3.8.x.asciidoc:
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@@ -30,6 +30,26 @@ complete list of all the modifications that are part of this
release.
=== Upgrading for Users
+==== Auto promotion of number types
+
+Previously, operations like sum or sack that involved mathematical
calculations did not automatically promote the result
+to a larger numeric type (e.g., from int to long) when needed. As a result,
values could wrap around within their current
+type, leading to unexpected behavior. This issue has now been resolved by
enabling automatic type promotion for results.
+
+Now, any mathematical operations such as Add, Sub, Mul, and Div will now
automatically promote to the next numeric type
+if an overflow is detected. For integers, the promotion sequence is: byte →
short → int → long → overflow exception. For
+floating-point numbers, the sequence is: float → double → infinity.
+
+As a example the following query...
+
+"""
+g.withSack(32767s).inject(1s).sack(sum).sack()
+"""
+
+Before would return a short overflow exception or wrap to -1 depending on
language, but now returns 32769i.
+
+See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP-3115 for more details.
Review Comment:
Nit:
```suggestion
See
link:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP-3115[TINKERPOP-3115] for
more details.
```
> Better handle overflows with sum()
> ----------------------------------
>
> Key: TINKERPOP-3115
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TINKERPOP-3115
> Project: TinkerPop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: process
> Affects Versions: 3.7.2
> Reporter: Stephen Mallette
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: breaking
>
> {{code}}
> gremlin> g.inject([(byte) 126, (byte) 2]).sum(local)
> ==>-128
> {{code}}
> that output seems unexpected. oddly it didn't work that way for the global
> version of {{sum()}} because the type auto promoted to {{long}} because there
> was multiplication by the {{bulk}} which was {{long}}. That changed on
> TINKERPOP-3088 though so now even the global version will work like this.
> seems like it would be better to promote they type whenever it didn't fit
> into the space allotted.
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