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Definition

sh.abortReshardCollection(namespace)

New in version 5.0.

During a resharding operation, you can abort the operation with the sh.abortReshardCollection() method.

You can abort a resharding operation at any point until the commit phase. If the resharding operation has reached the commit phase before you run the sh.abortReshardCollection() method, the method returns an error.

Important

mongosh Method

This page documents a mongosh method. This is not the documentation for database commands or language-specific drivers, such as Node.js.

For the database command, see the abortReshardCollection command.

For MongoDB API drivers, refer to the language-specific MongoDB driver documentation.

For the legacy mongo shell documentation, refer to the documentation for the corresponding MongoDB Server release:

Syntax

The sh.abortReshardCollection() method has the following syntax:

sh.abortReshardCollection( <namespace> )

Parameter

The sh.abortReshardCollection() method takes the following parameter:

ParameterTypeDescription
namespaceStringThe name of the collection to shard in the form "<database>.<collection>".

Example

Abort a Resharding Operation

The following example aborts a running resharding operation on the sales.orders collection:

sh.abortReshardCollection("sales.orders")

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