diff --git a/mysql-test/suite/rpl/r/rpl_mdev382.result b/mysql-test/suite/rpl/r/rpl_mdev382.result
index b564dd8401e..bbc57006d0d 100644
--- a/mysql-test/suite/rpl/r/rpl_mdev382.result
+++ b/mysql-test/suite/rpl/r/rpl_mdev382.result
@@ -321,9 +321,7 @@ a`
 # The DELETE statement should be correctly quoted
 show binlog events in 'master-bin.000002' from <binlog_start>;
 Log_name	Pos	Event_type	Server_id	End_log_pos	Info
-master-bin.000002	#	Query	#	#	BEGIN
-master-bin.000002	#	Query	#	#	use `test`; DELETE FROM `db1``; select 'oops!'`.`t``1`
-master-bin.000002	#	Query	#	#	COMMIT
+master-bin.000002	#	Query	#	#	DELETE FROM `db1``; select 'oops!'`.`t``1`
 include/start_slave.inc
 # The table should be empty on the slave also.
 SELECT * FROM `db1``; select 'oops!'`.`t``1`;
diff --git a/sql/sql_base.cc b/sql/sql_base.cc
index 52569f193aa..a1e00b74a47 100644
--- a/sql/sql_base.cc
+++ b/sql/sql_base.cc
@@ -3893,34 +3893,22 @@ static bool open_table_entry_fini(THD *thd, TABLE_SHARE *share, TABLE *entry)
     {
       char query_buf[2*FN_REFLEN + 21];
       String query(query_buf, sizeof(query_buf), system_charset_info);
+
       query.length(0);
-      if (query.ptr())
-      {
-        /* this DELETE FROM is needed even with row-based binlogging */
-        query.append("DELETE FROM ");
-        append_identifier(thd, &query, share->db.str, share->db.length);
-        query.append(".");
-        append_identifier(thd, &query, share->table_name.str,
+      query.append("DELETE FROM ");
+      append_identifier(thd, &query, share->db.str, share->db.length);
+      query.append(".");
+      append_identifier(thd, &query, share->table_name.str,
                           share->table_name.length);
-        int errcode= query_error_code(thd, TRUE);
-        if (thd->binlog_query(THD::STMT_QUERY_TYPE,
-                              query.ptr(), query.length(),
-                              FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, errcode))
-          return TRUE;
-      }
-      else
-      {
-        /*
-          As replication is maybe going to be corrupted, we need to warn the
-          DBA on top of warning the client (which will automatically be done
-          because of MYF(MY_WME) in my_malloc() above).
-        */
-        sql_print_error("When opening HEAP table, could not allocate memory "
-                        "to write 'DELETE FROM %`s.%`s' to the binary log",
-                        share->db.str, share->table_name.str);
-        delete entry->triggers;
+
+      /*
+        we bypass thd->binlog_query() here,
+        as it does a lot of extra work, that is simply wrong in this case
+      */
+      Query_log_event qinfo(thd, query.ptr(), query.length(),
+                            FALSE, TRUE, TRUE, 0);
+      if (mysql_bin_log.write(&qinfo))
         return TRUE;
-      }
     }
   }
   return FALSE;