SERVER-33606 fail to create logical session in shell connected to old servers

Also add --disableImplicitSessions shell cmdline arg.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/mongo/shell/shell_options.cpp b/src/mongo/shell/shell_options.cpp
index 71cf4ceb147..a3e6d9e82d5 100644
--- a/src/mongo/shell/shell_options.cpp
+++ b/src/mongo/shell/shell_options.cpp
@@ -220,6 +220,11 @@ Status addMongoShellOptions(moe::OptionSection* options) {
         moe::Switch,
         "automatically retry write operations upon transient network errors");
 
+    options->addOptionChaining("disableImplicitSessions",
+                               "disableImplicitSessions",
+                               moe::Switch,
+                               "do not automatically create and use implicit sessions");
+
     options
         ->addOptionChaining(
             "rpcProtocols", "rpcProtocols", moe::String, " none, opQueryOnly, opMsgOnly, all")
@@ -387,6 +392,9 @@ Status storeMongoShellOptions(const moe::Environment& params,
     if (params.count("retryWrites")) {
         shellGlobalParams.shouldRetryWrites = true;
     }
+    if (params.count("disableImplicitSessions")) {
+        shellGlobalParams.shouldUseImplicitSessions = false;
+    }
     if (params.count("rpcProtocols")) {
         std::string protos = params["rpcProtocols"].as<string>();
         auto parsedRPCProtos = rpc::parseProtocolSet(protos);