diff --git a/src/backend/distributed/utils/citus_depended_object.c b/src/backend/distributed/utils/citus_depended_object.c
index eaeb68066..75fe3d2c0 100644
--- a/src/backend/distributed/utils/citus_depended_object.c
+++ b/src/backend/distributed/utils/citus_depended_object.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include "postgres.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 
+#include "access/xact.h"
 #include "catalog/namespace.h"
 #include "catalog/pg_aggregate.h"
 #include "catalog/pg_am.h"