diff --git a/dev-python/sqlglot/Manifest b/dev-python/sqlglot/Manifest
index e81e1c823a7cf..f09370f4637ea 100644
--- a/dev-python/sqlglot/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/sqlglot/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST sqlglot-30.17.0.tar.gz 5999019 BLAKE2B 7d9e3855bc37296b01f55cde9f48a4da4ababc9600e59a9afe1748d00ae99046aaf41fce488ecee3a096351e73464c6da0da3b1b3481b427d768314b87e69cab SHA512 f451481fd2aea96e6c7818604414ac3759c478bbd4adff655358e0c551e125111ce12b956e9fac6cb1ec5e0cb5338991744a90972e1fe546954978ebd856d730
+DIST sqlglot-30.18.0.tar.gz 6018496 BLAKE2B 0df58a325c3c5b19ba79d667d6e2be5cfbab5d61714056784a12f5f689fae3cd5ef887ee366f6f38c4a0ee42c26f0c1a771da8d6e7142c71ce2d83273e4ea90d SHA512 817c667e7dc7f178d3b9b838d3db10e28a25d0c903b6fd80eef80f74eeaec2ef49db5ceb6a425d2359aaf864d201603bc4e8e82ab436d881d4685d4ff6601356
diff --git a/dev-python/sqlglot/sqlglot-30.18.0.ebuild b/dev-python/sqlglot/sqlglot-30.18.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..664549d125604
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+++ b/dev-python/sqlglot/sqlglot-30.18.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# Copyright 2023-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_EXT=1
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..15} )
+
+inherit cargo distutils-r1 pypi optfeature
+
+DESCRIPTION="An easily customizable SQL parser and transpiler"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://sqlglot.com/
+	https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot/
+	https://pypi.org/project/sqlglot/
+"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
+# Native extensions removed: it uses mypyc which is incredibly slow
+# and then the extension crashes anyway.  Upstream uses their own mypy
+# fork which might help but that's just insane.
+
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-python/setuptools-scm[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	test? (
+		dev-python/pytz[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+EPYTEST_PLUGINS=()
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_test() {
+	local EPYTEST_IGNORE=(
+		# Tests require pyspark or duckdb which aren't in the tree.
+		# Pandas would be a requirement normally, but it gets ignored by proxy.
+		"tests/dataframe/integration/test_dataframe.py"
+		"tests/dataframe/integration/test_grouped_data.py"
+		"tests/dataframe/integration/test_session.py"
+		"tests/test_executor.py"
+		"tests/test_optimizer.py"
+	)
+
+	rm -rf sqlglot || die
+	epytest
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	optfeature "simplifying timedelta expressions" dev-python/python-dateutil
+}