Here is how you disable the sometimes excessive logging that Globalize does:

# Disables Globalize's ActiveRecord logging
module Globalize
 class DbViewTranslator
   alias_method :orig_fetch_view_translation, :fetch_view_translation   
   def fetch_view_translation(key, language, idx, namespace = nil, original_caller = nil)
     ActiveRecord::Base.silence do
       orig_fetch_view_translation(key, language, idx, namespace, original_caller)
     end
   end
 end
end

This tip is originally from http://www.artweb-design.de/2007/9/16/disable-globalize-viewtranslation-sql-logging, but I had to adapt it a bit to work with my globalize version.

If this does not work with your version of globalize, then just check how it’s implemented in “lib/globalize/localization/db_view_translator.rb” and adapt the patch.