diff --git a/transactions/src/immutant/transactions/jdbc.clj b/transactions/src/immutant/transactions/jdbc.clj
index 65730ccd..5b27e097 100644
--- a/transactions/src/immutant/transactions/jdbc.clj
+++ b/transactions/src/immutant/transactions/jdbc.clj
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     `(let [~delegate ~delegate-expr]
        (reify ~type ~@expanded ~@methods))))
 
-(defmacro with-backref
+(defmacro ^:private with-backref
   "Expands to a reify spec for a Connection with an override-delegate
   call for a Statement, its specific type taken from (:tag (meta f)),
   created by invoking f on con, that overrides getConnection to return