Comment 2 for bug 1316863

If you want a work around comment out the following in /usr/bin/pt-table-checksum. It seems to work fine.

Starting at line 9202

     if ( VersionParser->new($dbh) >= '5.1.5' ) {
         $sql = 'SELECT @@binlog_format';
         PTDEBUG && _d($dbh, $sql);
         my ($original_binlog_format) = $dbh->selectrow_array($sql);
         PTDEBUG && _d('Original binlog_format:', $original_binlog_format);
         if ( $original_binlog_format !~ /STATEMENT/i ) {
            $sql = q{/*!50108 SET @@binlog_format := 'STATEMENT'*/};
            eval {
               PTDEBUG && _d($dbh, $sql);
               $dbh->do($sql);
            };
            if ( $EVAL_ERROR ) {
               die "Failed to $sql: $EVAL_ERROR\n"
                  . "This tool requires binlog_format=STATEMENT, "
                  . "but the current binlog_format is set to "
                  ."$original_binlog_format and an error occurred while "
                  . "attempting to change it. If running MySQL 5.1.29 or newer, "
                  . "setting binlog_format requires the SUPER privilege. "
                  . "You will need to manually set binlog_format to 'STATEMENT' "
                  . "before running this tool.\n";
            }
         }
      }