Q:

Mysql Undocumented Default Setting for sort_buffer_size in Options File

From a recent install of MySQL Workbench V. 6.2 (MySQL 5.6), while inspecting the options file (Edit > Preferences > General) I see that sort_buffer_size is set to 256k\n256k.
What does the \n256k part of this setting mean?

A:

The \n normally means newline, so what that text means is
256k
256k

The documentation for sort_buffer_size suggests it is only expecting a single value. My guess is that it is either an incorrect value in my.ini, parsing the my.ini incorrectly of there is a bug in the way workbench is displaying the value.

