diff --git a/bin/pt-online-schema-change b/bin/pt-online-schema-change
index 1bb01043..d55dbffe 100755
--- a/bin/pt-online-schema-change
+++ b/bin/pt-online-schema-change
@@ -10065,6 +10065,12 @@ sub check_alter {
             die ($msg);
        }
    }
+   if ( $alter =~ m/Engine\s*=\s*["']?RocksDB["']?/i ) {
+      my $row = $cxn->dbh()->selectrow_arrayref('SELECT @@binlog_format');
+      if (scalar $row > 0 && $row->[0] eq 'STATEMENT') {
+          die("Cannot change engine to RocksDB while binlog_format is other than 'ROW'");
+      }
+   }
    # ########################################################################
    # Check for DROP PRIMARY KEY.
    # ########################################################################
diff --git a/sandbox/5.6 b/sandbox/5.6
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/t/pt-online-schema-change/pt-205.t b/t/pt-online-schema-change/pt-205.t
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a4cfb8a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/pt-online-schema-change/pt-205.t
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+
+BEGIN {
+   die "The PERCONA_TOOLKIT_BRANCH environment variable is not set.\n"
+      unless $ENV{PERCONA_TOOLKIT_BRANCH} && -d $ENV{PERCONA_TOOLKIT_BRANCH};
+   unshift @INC, "$ENV{PERCONA_TOOLKIT_BRANCH}/lib";
+};
+
+use strict;
+use warnings FATAL => 'all';
+use threads;
+
+use English qw(-no_match_vars);
+use Test::More;
+
+use Data::Dumper;
+use PerconaTest;
+use Sandbox;
+use SqlModes;
+use File::Temp qw/ tempdir /;
+
+require "$trunk/bin/pt-online-schema-change";
+
+my $dp = new DSNParser(opts=>$dsn_opts);
+my $sb = new Sandbox(basedir => '/tmp', DSNParser => $dp);
+my $master_dbh = $sb->get_dbh_for('master');
+my $master_dsn = 'h=127.1,P=12345,u=msandbox,p=msandbox';
+
+if ( !$master_dbh ) {
+   plan skip_all => 'Cannot connect to sandbox master';
+}
+
+if ($sandbox_version lt '5.7') {
+   plan skip_all => "RocksDB is only available on Percona Server 5.7.19+";
+}
+
+
+if (!$sb->has_engine('master', 'rocksdb')) {
+   plan skip_all => "RocksDB engine is not available";
+}
+
+plan tests => 3;
+
+# The sandbox servers run with lock_wait_timeout=3 and it's not dynamic
+# so we need to specify --set-vars innodb_lock_wait_timeout=3 else the
+# tool will die.
+my @args       = (qw(--set-vars innodb_lock_wait_timeout=3));
+my $output;
+my $exit_status;
+
+$sb->load_file('master', "t/pt-online-schema-change/samples/pt-205.sql");
+
+($output, $exit_status) = full_output(
+   sub { pt_online_schema_change::main(@args, "$master_dsn,D=test,t=t1",
+         '--execute', 
+         '--alter', "Engine=RocksDB",
+         ),
+      },
+);
+
+isnt(
+      $exit_status,
+      0,
+      "PT-205 Altering engine to RocksDB, exit status != 0",
+);
+
+like(
+      $output,
+      qr/Cannot change engine to RocksDB while binlog_format is other than 'ROW'/s,
+      "PT-205 Altering engine to RocksDB error message",
+);
+
+$master_dbh->do("DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS test");
+
+# #############################################################################
+# Done.
+# #############################################################################
+$sb->wipe_clean($master_dbh);
+ok($sb->ok(), "Sandbox servers") or BAIL_OUT(__FILE__ . " broke the sandbox");
+done_testing;
diff --git a/t/pt-online-schema-change/samples/pt-205.sql b/t/pt-online-schema-change/samples/pt-205.sql
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1ece8b78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/pt-online-schema-change/samples/pt-205.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS test;
+USE test;
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t1;
+CREATE TABLE `test`.`t1` (
+`ID` int(11) NOT NULL,
+`Column2` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
+PRIMARY KEY (`ID`)
+) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci;