Excerpts from Jeff Hamann's message of mar jul 20 17:59:01 -0400 2010:
> select universedate,tradetimestamp,tradeprices from tradeprices where date(tradetimestamp) = CURRENT_DATE order by tradetimestamp desc;
You're selecting the "whole row" as a column, which is why you get a row
back in the third position -- try tradeprice instead of tradeprices.