[repoapi,session] remove all session-as-cnx backward compat
The `dbapi` being gone, we now can drop the session object
bw-compatibility layer. This will allow further simplifications, such
as folding ClientConnection and Connection (without too much pain),
and then having persistent sessions.
Related to #3933480.
[system]
db-driver = sqlite
db-name = tmpdb-extern
db-encoding = UTF-8