Why pretend? Assuming these two csv lines:

11,22,33,"ABC"
1111,3333,4444,"asdfasd asdfasdfasdf"
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And assuming you have the file_fdw extension installed ( create extension file_fdw; ), you could have Pg query it via:

create server pgcsv foreign data wrapper file_fdw;

create foreign table pgcsv (
   col1 int,
   col2 int,
   col3 int,
   col4 text
) server pgcsv
options ( filename '/tmp/pm-1040691.csv', format 'csv' );

select * from pgcsv; -- or a single column, of course...
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which will output:

CREATE SERVER
CREATE FOREIGN TABLE
 col1 | col2 | col3 |         col4
------+------+------+----------------------
   11 |   22 |   33 | ABC
 1111 | 3333 | 4444 | asdfasd asdfasdfasdf
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Obviously not the easiest way to go about it (and on top of that, postgres is rather picky about the text's precise format). I'm just showing this because you brought up "database" ;)