I ran into the following error when I tried to run pt-table-checksum
on the master.
Replica ip-10-83-3-194 has binlog_format ROW which could cause pt-table-checksum to break replication. Please read "Replicas using row-based replication" in the LIMITATIONS section of the tool's documentation. If you understand the risks, specify --no-check-binlog-format to disable this check.
So I read the documentation for that tool. It states:
pt-table-checksum requires statement-based replication, and it sets binlog_format=STATEMENT on the master, but due to a MySQL limitation replicas do not honor this change. Therefore, checksums will not replicate past any replicas using row-based replication that are masters for further replicas.
I verified the following things: