A curated roundup of Postgres news and content covering: the rise of Postgres as open source dominates over MySQL and proprietary databases; query plan flips and how they caused a production outage at Clerk; migrating from Heroku to AWS RDS using logical replication; a deep dive into work_mem memory exhaustion consuming 2TB of RAM; a new pg_schema_validate extension for JSON schema validation in-database; Patroni for building highly available Postgres clusters; pg_duckdb_lake for lakehouse analytics with Parquet files; using Postgres 18 statistics export/import to test production query plans in smaller environments; a query rewrite using partial indexes for 10-50x speedup; and contributing extensions to the Cloud Native PG project using Kubernetes image volumes.