postgres is too verbose!

HI,

I have postgres running as user postgres:

postmaster -i -D /var/lib/pgsql/data &

but when I go into my database, say 'addresses' and view the table I get all sorts extra spurious verbose studd that I would prefer not to see.

promtp]psql addresses
020314.17:59:13.391 [1551] read_pg_options: verbose=2,query=2,syslog=0
020314.17:59:13.392 [1551] started: host=localhost user=postgres database=addresses
020314.17:59:13.392 [1551] InitPostgres
020314.17:59:13.396 [1551] reset_client_encoding()..
020314.17:59:13.396 [1551] reset_client_encoding() done.
020314.17:59:13.397 [1551] StartTransactionCommand
020314.17:59:13.397 [1551] query: select getdatabaseencoding()
020314.17:59:13.398 [1551] ProcessQuery
020314.17:59:13.398 [1551] CommitTransactionCommand
020314.17:59:13.399 [1551] StartTransactionCommand
020314.17:59:13.399 [1551] query: SELECT usesuper FROM pg_user WHERE usename = 'postgres'
020314.17:59:13.402 [1551] ProcessQuery
020314.17:59:13.402 [1551] CommitTransactionCommand
Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help on internal slash commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit

addresses=#


....so all this stuff is superfluous to the proceedings. ANy way I can get rid of this?

ALso when I do SELECT * FROM table I get:

020314.18:00:55.982 [1551] StartTransactionCommand
020314.18:00:55.982 [1551] query: SELECT * FROM names;
020314.18:00:55.983 [1551] ProcessQuery
020314.18:00:55.984 [1551] CommitTransactionCommand
userid | first | surname | email
---------+--------+---------------+-------------
jd1234 | jon | doe | jon.doe

Open your postgresql.conf configuration file (probably /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf). Look for the area called "Debug display", and see what your debug level is. Default setting is 0, which just gives you a standard terminal client in psql, and only displays fatal errors. If the setting is higher, try changing it to 0 and restarting postmaster.