Selects with Array member

I need to know how to select based on a value's membership in an array. I
have tried something like

select * from this_table where this_list *= 'a';

which I found after many obscure searches on google. However pgsql doesn't
know what to do with this operator. Any idea or advice are greatly
appreciated.

Nathan Heagy

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